Akenside

Cited as Akenside. — 10 quotations

Beldam

Around the beldam all erect they hang.

Bribe

Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.

Date

He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fixed the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.

Delineate

Adventurous to delineate nature's form.

Devolve

Every headlong stream Devolves its winding waters to the main.

Discomposure

No discomposure stirred her features.

Disdainful

From these Turning disdainful to an equal good.

File

Mock the nice touches of the critic's file.

Passion

Who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion.

Taste

What, then, is taste, but those internal powers, Active and strong, and feelingly alive To each fine impulse? a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust From things deformed, or disarranged, or gross In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow, But God alone, when first his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul.