The poetical works of Mark AkensideContaining his Pleasures of imagination, Odes, Miscellanies, Hymns, Inscriptions, &c.. . COOra-s IDITTO^ or selectBltmSH^PQETS.. ) i ji,„„^ ft, TBrk -^^ *? , wokt laam^Jt^ *» ^f*- i^ Jjifrra,^ In f ^rafllf - PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. »9 The powrs of fancy, her delighted fons. To three ilkiftrioiis orders have referred, Three fifter Graces, whom the painters hand. The poets tongue, confefTes ; the Sublime, 145 The Wonderiul, the Fair. 1 fee them dawn ! I fee the radiant vifions where they rife, More lovely than when Lucifer difplays His beaming forehead throth
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The poetical works of Mark AkensideContaining his Pleasures of imagination, Odes, Miscellanies, Hymns, Inscriptions, &c.. . COOra-s IDITTO^ or selectBltmSH^PQETS.. ) i ji, „„^ ft, TBrk -^^ *? , wokt laam^Jt^ *» ^f*- i^ Jjifrra, ^ In f ^rafllf - PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. »9 The powrs of fancy, her delighted fons. To three ilkiftrioiis orders have referred, Three fifter Graces, whom the painters hand. The poets tongue, confefTes ; the Sublime, 145 The Wonderiul, the Fair. 1 fee them dawn ! I fee the radiant vifions where they rife, More lovely than when Lucifer difplays His beaming forehead throthe gates of morn, To lead the train of Phoebus and the Spring. 15O Say, v/hy was man fo eminently raisdAmid the vaft creation ? why ordaindThro life and death to dart his piercing eye.With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame, But that th Omnipotent might fend him forth, 155In fight of mortal and imm.ortal powrs.As on aboundlefs theatre, to rxmThe great career of juftice, to exaltHis genrous aim to all diviner deeds, To chafe each partial purpole from his breaft, iCoAnd thro the milts of pallion and of fenfe, And thro the tofling tide of chance and pa