| Mark Akenside - 1804 - 206 pages
...fair, the wonderful, of the mind. The connection of the Imagination and the moral faculty. Conclusion. WITH what attractive charms this goodly frame Of Nature touches the consenting hearts Of mortal men, and what the pleasing stores Which beauteous imitation thence derives, To deck... | |
| John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...key of a harpsichord. Thus in the following passage from Dr. Akenside's Pleasures of Imagination : With what attractive charms this goodly frame Of nature, touches the consenting hearts Of mortal men ; and what the pleasing stores Which beauteous imitation thence derives, To deck... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...fair, the wonderful of the mind. The connection of the imagination and the mural faculty. Conclusion. WITH what attractive charms this goodly frame Of Nature touches the consenting hearts Of mortal men ; and what the pleasing stores Which beauteous imitation thence derives To deck... | |
| Mark Akenside - 1818 - 216 pages
...receive notice of the world around us ; as well as the reflex pleasures derived from the imitative arts. With what attractive charms this goodly frame Of nature touches the consenting hearts Of mortal men, and what the pleasing stores Which beauteous Imitation thence derives To deck... | |
| Mark Akenside - 1818 - 210 pages
...connexion of the imagination and the moral faculty.— Conclusion. . THE PLEASURES or IMAGINATION. BOOK I. WITH what attractive charms this goodly frame Of Nature touches the consenting hearts Of mortal men ; and what the pleasing stores Which beauteous imitation thence derives ^o deck... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...idea of a fine imagination, and the state of the mind in the enjoyment of those pleasures it affords. WITH what attractive charms this goodly frame Of Nature touches the consenting hearts Of mortal men ; and what the pleasing stores Which beauteous imitation thence derives To deck... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...grave, And word spoke never more 1 AK KNSIDK.j AKENSIDE— AD 1721-70. PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. BOOK ,. With what attractive charms this goodly frame Of nature touches the consenting hearts Of mortal men; and what the pleasing stores Which beauteous imitation thence derives To deck... | |
| Thomas Rose - 1832 - 238 pages
...there a man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said — This is my own, my native land?" Whether " our steps are on the woody hill" that shrouds...nature touches the consenting heart • Of mortal men I And what the pleasing stores That beauteous imitation thence derives, To deck the poet's or the painter's... | |
| Timothy Mather Cooley - 1837 - 358 pages
...composition. On hearing the first page in "Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination," commencing thus — "With what attractive charms this goodly frame Of nature touches the consenting hearts Of mortal man," &c., he remarked, "The sentences are too long from one period to another. The... | |
| 1839 - 656 pages
...world according to the highest rules of taste ; or, to borrow the language of Akenside, to show, " With what attractive charms this goodly frame Of nature touches the consenting hearts Of moral men ; and what the pleasing stores Which beauteous imitation thence derives, To deck... | |
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