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" The pleasures of the imagination proceed either from natural objects, as from a flourishing grove, a clear and murmuring fountain, a calm sea by moonlight; or from works of art, such as a noble edifice, a musical tune, a statue, a picture, a poem. "
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 430
1772
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 55

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 404 pages
...ARGUMENT. HE pleafures of the imagination proceed eitiier from natural objefts, as from a flourifhing grove,. a clear and. murmuring fountain, a calm fea by moon-light ; or from works of art, ftich as a noble edifice, a rnufical tune, a ftatue, a pifture, a poem. In treating of thefe pleafures,...
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The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside: With the Life of the Author, Volume 2

Mark Akenside - 1804 - 206 pages
...IMAGINATION. THE GENERAL ARGUMENT. THE pleasures of the Imagination proceed either from natural . objects, as from a flourishing grove, a clear and murmuring fountain, a calm sea by moonlight ; or from works of art, such as a noble edifice, a musical tune, a statue, a picture,...
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The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside, M.D.: In Two Volumes. Collated with the ...

Mark Akenside, Thomas Park - 1808 - 358 pages
...ENLARGED PLAN. GENERAL ARGUMENT. THE pleasures of the imagination proceed either ii <MM natural objects, as from a flourishing grove, a clear and murmuring fountain, a calm sea by moon-light ; or from works of art, such as a noble edifice, a musical tune, a statue, a picture,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Mallet, Akenside ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...A POEM. THE GENKRAL ARGUMENT. The pleasures of the imagination proceed either from natural objects, as from a flourishing grove, a clear and murmuring fountain, a calm sea by moon-light ; or from works of art, such as a noble edifice, a musical tune, a statue, a picture,...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...pleasures which his poem professes to treat of, ' proceed,' he says, ' either from natural objects, feminate he sat and quiet — birtmze sea by moonlight, or from works of art, such as a noble edifice, a musical tune, a statue, a picture,...
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The Poetical Works of Mark Akinside: With His Life

Mark Akenside - 1838 - 352 pages
...pride." THE GENERAL ARGUMENT. THE Pleasures of the Imagination proceed either from natural objects, as from a flourishing grove, a clear and murmuring fountain, a calm sea by moonlight; or from works of art, such as a noble edifice, a musical tune, a statue, a picture,...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...pleasures which his poem professes to treat of, ' proceed,' lie says, ' either from natural objects, n, virtue, nought can me bereave. ' The sea by moonlight, or from works of art, such as a noble edifice, a musical tune, a statue, a picture,...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...pleasures which his poem professes to treat of, ' proceed,' he says. ' either from natural objects, sea by moonlight» or from works of art, such as a noble edifice, a musical tune, a statue, a picture,...
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The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside - Poetry - 1845 - 364 pages
...IMAGINATION. A POEM. GENERAL ARGUMENT. THE pleasures of the imagination proceed either from natural objects, as from a flourishing grove, a clear and murmuring fountain, a calm sea by moonlight ; or from works of art, such as a noble edifice, a musical tune, a statue, a picture,...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...pleasures of which the poem professes to treat' proceed,' says the author,' either from natural objects, as from a flourishing grove, a clear and murmuring fountain, a calm sea by moonlight; or from works of art, such as a noble edifice, a musical tune, a statue, a picture,...
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