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

  • Mark Akenside
Date:
1754
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Credit: The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Effufive kindled by his breath divine Thro’ endlefs forms of being. Each inhal’d prom him each portion of the vital flame* In meafure fuch, that from the wide complex 320 Of coexiftent orders, one might rife. One order, all-involving and intire. He too beholding in the facred light Of his eflential reafon, all the fhapes Of fwift contingence, all fucceflive ties 325 Of adtion propagated thro5 the fum Of poflible exiftence, he at once, Down the long feries of eventful time. So fix’d the dates of being, fo difpos’d, ' To every living foul of every kind 330 The field of motion and the hour of reft. That all confpir’d to his fupreme defign. To univerfal good : with full accord Anfwering the mighty model he had chos’n, —.—one might rife, One order, &c.] See the meditations of Antoninus, and th§ ehara&erifticks, paffim. E 4 The