The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books.

  • Mark Akenside
Date:
1754
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    151 ] THE PLEASURES O F IMAGINATION. Book the Second. HEN fhall the laurel and the vocal firing ? ▼ Refume their honours? When fhall we behold The tuneful tongue, the Promethean hand Alpire to ancient praife ? Alas! how faint. How (low the dawn of beauty and of truth 5 Breaks the reludlant fhades of Gothic night Which yet involve the nations! Long they groan’d Beneath the furies of rapacious force 5 P % Oft