 | Mark Akenside - English poetry - 1744 - 110 pages
...fighs for harmony, and grace, And gentleft beauty. Hence when lightning fires 550 The arch of heav'n, and thunders rock the ground ; When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, And ocean, groaning from the loweft bed, , • Heaves his tempeftuous billows to the fky ; Amid the mighty uproar, while below... | |
 | John Gilbert Cooper - Aesthetics - 1757 - 420 pages
...fighs for harmony, and grace, And gentleft beauty. Hence when lightning fires 550 The arch of heav'n, and thunders rock the ground ; When furious whirlwinds...rend the howling air, And ocean, groaning .from his loweft bed, Heaves his tempeftuous billows to the fky ; One purfuet Tbe -vaji alone, &c.] See the note... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...could acquire." AKINSIDE. From the fame Author's Pleafures of Imagination, Book 3. when lightening fires The arch of heaven, and thunders rock the ground,...rend the howling air, And ocean, groaning from his loweft bed, Heaves his tempeftuous billows to the flcy; Amid the general uproar, while below The nations... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1744 - 124 pages
...fin- harmony, and grace, And gentleftbeftrty. Hence when light 'ning fires 590 The arch of heav'n, and thunders rock the ground, When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, And Oeean, groaning from his lowoft bed, Heaves his tempeftuous billows to the Iky; Ani'u! the mighty uproar,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...Another £ghs for harmony, and grace, And gentlcft beauty. Hence when lightning fires The arch of heav'n, and thunders rock the ground ; When furious whirlwinds...rend the howling air, And ocean, groaning from his loweft bed, Heaves his tempeftuous billows to the fky ; Amid the mighty uproar, while below The nations... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1787 - 400 pages
...fingers cull Frefh flow'rs and dews to fprinkle on the turf Where Shakefpeare lies, be prefent— • when lightning fires The arch of Heaven, and thunders...rend the howling air, And ocean, groaning from. his lo weft, bed, Heaves Jiis tempeftuous billows to the Iky } Amid the general uproar,, while below The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 570 pages
...genius only could acquire." AKENSIDE. From the fame Author's Pleafures of Imagination, B. III. • when lightning fires The arch of heaven, and thunders...rend the howling air, And ocean, groaning from his loweft bed, Heaves his tempeftuous billows to the fky ; Amid the mighty uproar, while below The nations... | |
 | Mark Akenside - English poetry - 1794 - 218 pages
...purfues The vaft alone, the wonderful, the wild ; Another nghs for harmony, and grace, 549 And gentleft beauty. Hence when lightning fires The arch of heaven,...rend the howling air, And Ocean, groaning from his loweft bed, Heaves his tempeftuous billows to the fky ; Amid the mighty uproar, while below 555 The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 384 pages
...purfues The vaft alone, the wonderful, the wild ; Another fighs for harmony, and grace, And gentleft beauty. Hence, when lightning fires The arch of heaven,...whirlwinds rend the howling air, And Ocean, groaning from the lowefl bed, Heaves his tempeftuous billows to the fky ; Amid the mighty uproar, while below The... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...labour, or attend His will obsequious, whether to produce The olive or the laurel. Different mind* Incline to different objects ; one pursues The vast...sighs for harmony, and grace, And gentlest beauty. Here there being little emotion of mind expressed, little actioft is required : what is used should... | |
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Different minds Incline to different objects : one pursues The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild ; Another sighs for harmony, and grace, And gentlest beauty. Hence when lightning fires The arch of Heaven, and thunders rock the ground, When furious whirlwinds... 
