...periods, and their laws Give me to scan; thro' the disclosing deep Light my blind way: the mineral strata there; Thrust, blooming, thence the vegetable...mind, The varied scene of quick-compounded thought. Henry Baker's The Universe: a Poem intended to Restrain the Pride of Man ( 1 734) is another nice example...

...to be continually fascinated in their poetic careers by Locke's presentation of (in Thomson's words) 'the mind, / The varied scene of quick-compounded thought, / And where the mixing passions endless shift.'32 Virgil's original poem opens with a dedication to the great Roman patron of poetry, Gaius...

...and their laws Give me to scan. Through the disclosing deep Light to my blind way, — the mineral strata there, Thrust blooming thence the vegetable...Of animals, and higher still, the mind, The varied scheme of quick-compounded thought, And where the mixing passions endless shift, These ever open to...

...were the metaphysicians of former ages. " Through the dis-closing deep Light my blind way: The mineral strata there Thrust blooming. Thence the vegetable...more complex Of animals, and higher still the mind." Whenever a man has elaborated any complex or delicate piece of machinery, in order to preserve it he...