Top 9 Mark Akenside Quotes
#1. This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
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#2. The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
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#3. Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.
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#4. Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
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#5. Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.
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#7. 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 bewilder'd thought,
And bless my labour'g mind.
Mark Akenside
#9. 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 path in which the sun-beams gleaming from the west fall on the watery cloud.
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