Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty. — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their… — Mark Akenside Copy Share
Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow mild, love… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise. — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
Hence when lightning fires the arch of heaven, and thunders rock the ground, when furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, and ocean, groaning from… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty. — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
