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Speak, ye, the pure delight, whose favour’d steps
The lamp of science, through the jealous maze
Of nature guides, when haply you reveal
Her secret honours.

— Mark Akenside The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)

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Man loves knowledge, and the beams of truth
More welcome touch his understanding's eye
Than all the blandishments of sound his ear,
Than all of taste his tongue.

The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)

Such and so various are the tastes of men!

The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)

The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Epistle to Curio (1744)

Oft the hours
From morn to eve have stolen unmark'd away,
While mute attention hung upon his lips.

The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)

Heaven's all-subduing will,
With good the progeny of ill,
Attempreth every state below.

Odes on Several Subjects (1745)

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