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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. - [Mind] From bounty issues power. - [Bounty] Hark! how the gentle echo from her cell Talks through the cliffs, and murmuring o'er the stream, Repeats the accent--we shall part no more. - [Echo] Others of graver mien, behold, adorn 'd With holy ensigns, how sublime they move, And bending oft their sanctimonious eyes, Take homage of the simple-minded throng; Ambassadors of heaven! - [Clergymen] 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 seats; yet still serene, The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; And ever stronger as the storms advance, Firm through the closing ruin holds is way, When nature calls him to the destin'd goal. - [Mind] Thus was beauty sent from heaven--the lovely mistress of truth and good in this dark world. - [Loveliness] The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise. - Epistle to Curio [Man] 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. - Inscription (IV) [Shakespeare] And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, TO hid the feeling heart? - Pleasure of Imagination (bk. II, l. 147) [Hypocrisy] The green retreats Of Academus. - Pleasures of the Imagination (canto I, l. 591) [Learning] At last the Muses rose, . . . And scattered, . . . as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from fair Valclusa's bowers To Arno's myrtle border. - Pleasures of the Imagination (II) [Arno River : Rivers] Thus, then, was Beauty sent from heaven, The lovely ministress of Truth and Good In this dark world: for Truth and Good are one; And Beauty dwells in them, and they in her, With like participation. - The Pleasures of Imagination [Beauty] Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. - The Virtuoso (st. 10) [Trifles]
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