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"Just so supreme[1], unmated, and alone,
The Soul assumes her intellectual throne;
Around their queen attendant spirits watch,
Each rising thought with prompt observance catch,
The tidings of internal passion spread,
And thro' each part the swift contagion shed.
With motive throes the quickening limbs conceive;
The blood tempestuous, pours a flushing wave;
With raging swell alternate pantings rise;
And terrors rowl within the kindling eyes.
The mind thus speeds her ministry abroad,
And rules obedient matter with a nod;
The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields,
And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields.
Thro' winding paths[2] her sprightly envoys fly,
Or watchful in the frontier senses lie;
Brisk on the tongue[3] the grateful gusto greet,
And thro' the nerves return the ideal sweet;
Or incense[4] from the nostrils gate exhale,
And to their goddess waft the odorous gale;
Or musical to charm[5] the listening soul,
Attentive round the tortuous ear patrole,
There each sonorous undulation wait,
And thrill in rapture to the mental seat;
Or wondrous[6] to the organick vision pass,
And to the mind inflect the magick glass;
Here born elate[7] upon etherial tides,
The blythe illuminated glory glides,
And on the beam the painted image rides[8];
Those images that still continuous flow,
Effluviated around, above, below,
True to the colour, distance, shape, and size,
That from essential things perpetual rise,
And obvious gratulate[9] our wondering eyes;
Convey the bloom of nature's smiling scene[10],
The vernal landskip, and the watery main;
The flocks that nibble[11] on the flowery lawn,
The frisking lambkin, and the wanton fawn;
The sight[12] how grateful to the social soul,
That thus imbibes the blessings of the whole,
Joys in their joy, while each inspires his breast
With blessings multiplied from all that's blest!
Nor less yon heights[13] the unfolding heaven display,
Its nightly twinkle, and its streaming day;
The page impress'd conspicuous on the skies,
A preface to the Book of Glory lies;
We mount the steep, high born upon delight,
While hope aspires beyond--and distances the sight.
Thus heaven and earth, whom varying graces deck,
In full proportions paint the visual speck;
So awful did[14] the Almighty's forming will,
Amazing texture, and stupendous skill,
The visionary net[15] and tunics weave[16],
And the bright gem with lucid humours lave[17];
So gave the ball's collected ray to glow,
And round the pupil arch'd his radiant bow[18];
Full in a point[19] unmeasured spaces lie,
And worlds inclusive dwell within our eye.
Yet useless was[20] this textured wonder made,
Were Nature, beauteous object! undisplay'd;
Those, both as vain, the object, and the sight,
Wrapt from the radiance of revealing light;
As vain the bright illuminating beam,
Unwafted by the medium's airy stream:
Yet vain the textured eye, and object fair,
The sunny lustre, and continuous air;
Annull'd and blank this grand illustrious scene,
All, all its grace, and lifeless glories, vain;
Till from the Eternal[21] sprung this effluent Soul,
Bless'd to inspect, and comprehend the whole!
O whence, say whence this endless Beauty springs,
This awful, dear, delightful depth of things?
Whence but from Thee! Thou Great One! Thou Divine!
Placid! and Mild! All Gracious! All Benign!
Thou Nature's Parent! and Supreme Desire!
How loved the offspring!--and how bless'd the Sire!
How ever Bless'd! as blessings from Thee flow,
And spread all bounteous on Thy works below:
The reptile[22], wreathed in many a wanton play;
And insect, basking in the shine of day;
The grazing quadruped, and plumy choir
That earthly born to heavenly heights aspire;
All species, form'd beneath the solar beam,
That numberless adorn our future theme,--
Fed in Thy bounty, fashion'd in Thy Skill,
Cloath'd in Thy Love, instructed in Thy will,
Safe in Thy conduct, their unerring guide,
All-save the child of ignorance and pride--
The paths of Beauty and of Truth pursue,
And teach proud man those lectures which ensue!
NOTES
1. It is an observation of an author learned in the law, that ""non omne simile quatuor pedi-""bus currit;"" yet as our passions (the operation of which is above described) may be called a state of warfare, the simile even in that respect is not unjust.
2. did not think it necessary to insert here the sense of feeling, not only because there is no special or peculiar organ to which it bears relation, but because I take it for a sort of universal sense, all sensation being performed by contact; and so--
3. tasting--
4. smelling--
5. hearing, and--
6. seeing, being but a different kind of touch, or feeling, agreeable and accommodated to the difference of objects that are thereby perceived.
7. The manner in which the--
8. object is conveyed to the eye--
9. by whose second mediation the perceiving soul rejoices--
10. beholding the elegance and beauty of nature--
11. but chiefly those animated beings who through life are susceptible of happiness--
12. as every generous person increases his happiness by rejoicing in the happiness of others--
13. and as by means of this miraculous organ of sight, the beauties of earth are conspicuous, so in the first page of heaven expanded before us, to raise our hope to an assurance of further bliss.
14. The wonderful texture of the aye--
15. its retina (continued from the optick nerve) which is the proper organ of vision--
16. its coats--
17. humours--
18. and Iris, or circle surrounding the pupil, within which--
19. the images of things are distinctly painted.
20. The infinitely wise adjustment of nature demonstrated; inasmuch as the eye had been useless without the object, both eye and object useless without light, the eye, the object, and the light, still useless without the medium of air for conveyance, and altogether as useless without.
21. The mind, which only can perceive.
22. This paragraph was added as a hint of the following part, which chiefly treats of the arts and instincts of the inferior animal system: which subject, as it is less abstruse, so, it is probable, it will be more agreeable than any hitherto treated of.",2009-09-14 19:36:26 UTC,"""Just so supreme, unmated, and alone, / The Soul assumes her intellectual throne""",2004-07-28 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•Rich Passage. INTEREST. REVISIT. Another complete allegory of the soul's operations. Cross-reference Blackmore's Alfred and other such passages.,"Searching ""throne"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry)",11952,4548
"Just so supreme[1], unmated, and alone,
The Soul assumes her intellectual throne;
Around their queen attendant spirits watch,
Each rising thought with prompt observance catch,
The tidings of internal passion spread,
And thro' each part the swift contagion shed.
With motive throes the quickening limbs conceive;
The blood tempestuous, pours a flushing wave;
With raging swell alternate pantings rise;
And terrors rowl within the kindling eyes.
The mind thus speeds her ministry abroad,
And rules obedient matter with a nod;
The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields,
And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields.
Thro' winding paths[2] her sprightly envoys fly,
Or watchful in the frontier senses lie;
Brisk on the tongue[3] the grateful gusto greet,
And thro' the nerves return the ideal sweet;
Or incense[4] from the nostrils gate exhale,
And to their goddess waft the odorous gale;
Or musical to charm[5] the listening soul,
Attentive round the tortuous ear patrole,
There each sonorous undulation wait,
And thrill in rapture to the mental seat;
Or wondrous[6] to the organick vision pass,
And to the mind inflect the magick glass;
Here born elate[7] upon etherial tides,
The blythe illuminated glory glides,
And on the beam the painted image rides[8];
Those images that still continuous flow,
Effluviated around, above, below,
True to the colour, distance, shape, and size,
That from essential things perpetual rise,
And obvious gratulate[9] our wondering eyes;
Convey the bloom of nature's smiling scene[10],
The vernal landskip, and the watery main;
The flocks that nibble[11] on the flowery lawn,
The frisking lambkin, and the wanton fawn;
The sight[12] how grateful to the social soul,
That thus imbibes the blessings of the whole,
Joys in their joy, while each inspires his breast
With blessings multiplied from all that's blest!
Nor less yon heights[13] the unfolding heaven display,
Its nightly twinkle, and its streaming day;
The page impress'd conspicuous on the skies,
A preface to the Book of Glory lies;
We mount the steep, high born upon delight,
While hope aspires beyond--and distances the sight.
Thus heaven and earth, whom varying graces deck,
In full proportions paint the visual speck;
So awful did[14] the Almighty's forming will,
Amazing texture, and stupendous skill,
The visionary net[15] and tunics weave[16],
And the bright gem with lucid humours lave[17];
So gave the ball's collected ray to glow,
And round the pupil arch'd his radiant bow[18];
Full in a point[19] unmeasured spaces lie,
And worlds inclusive dwell within our eye.
Yet useless was[20] this textured wonder made,
Were Nature, beauteous object! undisplay'd;
Those, both as vain, the object, and the sight,
Wrapt from the radiance of revealing light;
As vain the bright illuminating beam,
Unwafted by the medium's airy stream:
Yet vain the textured eye, and object fair,
The sunny lustre, and continuous air;
Annull'd and blank this grand illustrious scene,
All, all its grace, and lifeless glories, vain;
Till from the Eternal[21] sprung this effluent Soul,
Bless'd to inspect, and comprehend the whole!
O whence, say whence this endless Beauty springs,
This awful, dear, delightful depth of things?
Whence but from Thee! Thou Great One! Thou Divine!
Placid! and Mild! All Gracious! All Benign!
Thou Nature's Parent! and Supreme Desire!
How loved the offspring!--and how bless'd the Sire!
How ever Bless'd! as blessings from Thee flow,
And spread all bounteous on Thy works below:
The reptile[22], wreathed in many a wanton play;
And insect, basking in the shine of day;
The grazing quadruped, and plumy choir
That earthly born to heavenly heights aspire;
All species, form'd beneath the solar beam,
That numberless adorn our future theme,--
Fed in Thy bounty, fashion'd in Thy Skill,
Cloath'd in Thy Love, instructed in Thy will,
Safe in Thy conduct, their unerring guide,
All-save the child of ignorance and pride--
The paths of Beauty and of Truth pursue,
And teach proud man those lectures which ensue!
NOTES
1. It is an observation of an author learned in the law, that ""non omne simile quatuor pedi-""bus currit;"" yet as our passions (the operation of which is above described) may be called a state of warfare, the simile even in that respect is not unjust.
2. did not think it necessary to insert here the sense of feeling, not only because there is no special or peculiar organ to which it bears relation, but because I take it for a sort of universal sense, all sensation being performed by contact; and so--
3. tasting--
4. smelling--
5. hearing, and--
6. seeing, being but a different kind of touch, or feeling, agreeable and accommodated to the difference of objects that are thereby perceived.
7. The manner in which the--
8. object is conveyed to the eye--
9. by whose second mediation the perceiving soul rejoices--
10. beholding the elegance and beauty of nature--
11. but chiefly those animated beings who through life are susceptible of happiness--
12. as every generous person increases his happiness by rejoicing in the happiness of others--
13. and as by means of this miraculous organ of sight, the beauties of earth are conspicuous, so in the first page of heaven expanded before us, to raise our hope to an assurance of further bliss.
14. The wonderful texture of the aye--
15. its retina (continued from the optick nerve) which is the proper organ of vision--
16. its coats--
17. humours--
18. and Iris, or circle surrounding the pupil, within which--
19. the images of things are distinctly painted.
20. The infinitely wise adjustment of nature demonstrated; inasmuch as the eye had been useless without the object, both eye and object useless without light, the eye, the object, and the light, still useless without the medium of air for conveyance, and altogether as useless without.
21. The mind, which only can perceive.
22. This paragraph was added as a hint of the following part, which chiefly treats of the arts and instincts of the inferior animal system: which subject, as it is less abstruse, so, it is probable, it will be more agreeable than any hitherto treated of.",2009-09-14 19:36:26 UTC,"""Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed""",2004-07-28 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Ruler,"•Rich Passage. INTEREST. REVISIT. Another complete allegory of the soul's operations. Cross-reference Blackmore's Alfred and other such passages.
•I've included thrice: Monarch, Attendants, Gossip",HDIS,11953,4548
"Just so supreme[1], unmated, and alone,
The Soul assumes her intellectual throne;
Around their queen attendant spirits watch,
Each rising thought with prompt observance catch,
The tidings of internal passion spread,
And thro' each part the swift contagion shed.
With motive throes the quickening limbs conceive;
The blood tempestuous, pours a flushing wave;
With raging swell alternate pantings rise;
And terrors rowl within the kindling eyes.
The mind thus speeds her ministry abroad,
And rules obedient matter with a nod;
The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields,
And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields.
Thro' winding paths[2] her sprightly envoys fly,
Or watchful in the frontier senses lie;
Brisk on the tongue[3] the grateful gusto greet,
And thro' the nerves return the ideal sweet;
Or incense[4] from the nostrils gate exhale,
And to their goddess waft the odorous gale;
Or musical to charm[5] the listening soul,
Attentive round the tortuous ear patrole,
There each sonorous undulation wait,
And thrill in rapture to the mental seat;
Or wondrous[6] to the organick vision pass,
And to the mind inflect the magick glass;
Here born elate[7] upon etherial tides,
The blythe illuminated glory glides,
And on the beam the painted image rides[8];
Those images that still continuous flow,
Effluviated around, above, below,
True to the colour, distance, shape, and size,
That from essential things perpetual rise,
And obvious gratulate[9] our wondering eyes;
Convey the bloom of nature's smiling scene[10],
The vernal landskip, and the watery main;
The flocks that nibble[11] on the flowery lawn,
The frisking lambkin, and the wanton fawn;
The sight[12] how grateful to the social soul,
That thus imbibes the blessings of the whole,
Joys in their joy, while each inspires his breast
With blessings multiplied from all that's blest!
Nor less yon heights[13] the unfolding heaven display,
Its nightly twinkle, and its streaming day;
The page impress'd conspicuous on the skies,
A preface to the Book of Glory lies;
We mount the steep, high born upon delight,
While hope aspires beyond--and distances the sight.
Thus heaven and earth, whom varying graces deck,
In full proportions paint the visual speck;
So awful did[14] the Almighty's forming will,
Amazing texture, and stupendous skill,
The visionary net[15] and tunics weave[16],
And the bright gem with lucid humours lave[17];
So gave the ball's collected ray to glow,
And round the pupil arch'd his radiant bow[18];
Full in a point[19] unmeasured spaces lie,
And worlds inclusive dwell within our eye.
Yet useless was[20] this textured wonder made,
Were Nature, beauteous object! undisplay'd;
Those, both as vain, the object, and the sight,
Wrapt from the radiance of revealing light;
As vain the bright illuminating beam,
Unwafted by the medium's airy stream:
Yet vain the textured eye, and object fair,
The sunny lustre, and continuous air;
Annull'd and blank this grand illustrious scene,
All, all its grace, and lifeless glories, vain;
Till from the Eternal[21] sprung this effluent Soul,
Bless'd to inspect, and comprehend the whole!
O whence, say whence this endless Beauty springs,
This awful, dear, delightful depth of things?
Whence but from Thee! Thou Great One! Thou Divine!
Placid! and Mild! All Gracious! All Benign!
Thou Nature's Parent! and Supreme Desire!
How loved the offspring!--and how bless'd the Sire!
How ever Bless'd! as blessings from Thee flow,
And spread all bounteous on Thy works below:
The reptile[22], wreathed in many a wanton play;
And insect, basking in the shine of day;
The grazing quadruped, and plumy choir
That earthly born to heavenly heights aspire;
All species, form'd beneath the solar beam,
That numberless adorn our future theme,--
Fed in Thy bounty, fashion'd in Thy Skill,
Cloath'd in Thy Love, instructed in Thy will,
Safe in Thy conduct, their unerring guide,
All-save the child of ignorance and pride--
The paths of Beauty and of Truth pursue,
And teach proud man those lectures which ensue!
NOTES
1. It is an observation of an author learned in the law, that ""non omne simile quatuor pedi-""bus currit;"" yet as our passions (the operation of which is above described) may be called a state of warfare, the simile even in that respect is not unjust.
2. did not think it necessary to insert here the sense of feeling, not only because there is no special or peculiar organ to which it bears relation, but because I take it for a sort of universal sense, all sensation being performed by contact; and so--
3. tasting--
4. smelling--
5. hearing, and--
6. seeing, being but a different kind of touch, or feeling, agreeable and accommodated to the difference of objects that are thereby perceived.
7. The manner in which the--
8. object is conveyed to the eye--
9. by whose second mediation the perceiving soul rejoices--
10. beholding the elegance and beauty of nature--
11. but chiefly those animated beings who through life are susceptible of happiness--
12. as every generous person increases his happiness by rejoicing in the happiness of others--
13. and as by means of this miraculous organ of sight, the beauties of earth are conspicuous, so in the first page of heaven expanded before us, to raise our hope to an assurance of further bliss.
14. The wonderful texture of the aye--
15. its retina (continued from the optick nerve) which is the proper organ of vision--
16. its coats--
17. humours--
18. and Iris, or circle surrounding the pupil, within which--
19. the images of things are distinctly painted.
20. The infinitely wise adjustment of nature demonstrated; inasmuch as the eye had been useless without the object, both eye and object useless without light, the eye, the object, and the light, still useless without the medium of air for conveyance, and altogether as useless without.
21. The mind, which only can perceive.
22. This paragraph was added as a hint of the following part, which chiefly treats of the arts and instincts of the inferior animal system: which subject, as it is less abstruse, so, it is probable, it will be more agreeable than any hitherto treated of.
",2009-09-14 19:36:27 UTC,"""The blood tempestuous, pours a flushing wave"" and ""With raging swell alternate pantings rise""",2004-07-28 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•Rich Passage. INTEREST. REVISIT. Another complete allegory of the soul's operations. Cross-reference Blackmore's Alfred and other such passages.,HDIS,11957,4548
"Just so supreme[1], unmated, and alone,
The Soul assumes her intellectual throne;
Around their queen attendant spirits watch,
Each rising thought with prompt observance catch,
The tidings of internal passion spread,
And thro' each part the swift contagion shed.
With motive throes the quickening limbs conceive;
The blood tempestuous, pours a flushing wave;
With raging swell alternate pantings rise;
And terrors rowl within the kindling eyes.
The mind thus speeds her ministry abroad,
And rules obedient matter with a nod;
The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields,
And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields.
Thro' winding paths[2] her sprightly envoys fly,
Or watchful in the frontier senses lie;
Brisk on the tongue[3] the grateful gusto greet,
And thro' the nerves return the ideal sweet;
Or incense[4] from the nostrils gate exhale,
And to their goddess waft the odorous gale;
Or musical to charm[5] the listening soul,
Attentive round the tortuous ear patrole,
There each sonorous undulation wait,
And thrill in rapture to the mental seat;
Or wondrous[6] to the organick vision pass,
And to the mind inflect the magick glass;
Here born elate[7] upon etherial tides,
The blythe illuminated glory glides,
And on the beam the painted image rides[8];
Those images that still continuous flow,
Effluviated around, above, below,
True to the colour, distance, shape, and size,
That from essential things perpetual rise,
And obvious gratulate[9] our wondering eyes;
Convey the bloom of nature's smiling scene[10],
The vernal landskip, and the watery main;
The flocks that nibble[11] on the flowery lawn,
The frisking lambkin, and the wanton fawn;
The sight[12] how grateful to the social soul,
That thus imbibes the blessings of the whole,
Joys in their joy, while each inspires his breast
With blessings multiplied from all that's blest!
Nor less yon heights[13] the unfolding heaven display,
Its nightly twinkle, and its streaming day;
The page impress'd conspicuous on the skies,
A preface to the Book of Glory lies;
We mount the steep, high born upon delight,
While hope aspires beyond--and distances the sight.
Thus heaven and earth, whom varying graces deck,
In full proportions paint the visual speck;
So awful did[14] the Almighty's forming will,
Amazing texture, and stupendous skill,
The visionary net[15] and tunics weave[16],
And the bright gem with lucid humours lave[17];
So gave the ball's collected ray to glow,
And round the pupil arch'd his radiant bow[18];
Full in a point[19] unmeasured spaces lie,
And worlds inclusive dwell within our eye.
Yet useless was[20] this textured wonder made,
Were Nature, beauteous object! undisplay'd;
Those, both as vain, the object, and the sight,
Wrapt from the radiance of revealing light;
As vain the bright illuminating beam,
Unwafted by the medium's airy stream:
Yet vain the textured eye, and object fair,
The sunny lustre, and continuous air;
Annull'd and blank this grand illustrious scene,
All, all its grace, and lifeless glories, vain;
Till from the Eternal[21] sprung this effluent Soul,
Bless'd to inspect, and comprehend the whole!
O whence, say whence this endless Beauty springs,
This awful, dear, delightful depth of things?
Whence but from Thee! Thou Great One! Thou Divine!
Placid! and Mild! All Gracious! All Benign!
Thou Nature's Parent! and Supreme Desire!
How loved the offspring!--and how bless'd the Sire!
How ever Bless'd! as blessings from Thee flow,
And spread all bounteous on Thy works below:
The reptile[22], wreathed in many a wanton play;
And insect, basking in the shine of day;
The grazing quadruped, and plumy choir
That earthly born to heavenly heights aspire;
All species, form'd beneath the solar beam,
That numberless adorn our future theme,--
Fed in Thy bounty, fashion'd in Thy Skill,
Cloath'd in Thy Love, instructed in Thy will,
Safe in Thy conduct, their unerring guide,
All-save the child of ignorance and pride--
The paths of Beauty and of Truth pursue,
And teach proud man those lectures which ensue!
NOTES
1. It is an observation of an author learned in the law, that ""non omne simile quatuor pedi-""bus currit;"" yet as our passions (the operation of which is above described) may be called a state of warfare, the simile even in that respect is not unjust.
2. did not think it necessary to insert here the sense of feeling, not only because there is no special or peculiar organ to which it bears relation, but because I take it for a sort of universal sense, all sensation being performed by contact; and so--
3. tasting--
4. smelling--
5. hearing, and--
6. seeing, being but a different kind of touch, or feeling, agreeable and accommodated to the difference of objects that are thereby perceived.
7. The manner in which the--
8. object is conveyed to the eye--
9. by whose second mediation the perceiving soul rejoices--
10. beholding the elegance and beauty of nature--
11. but chiefly those animated beings who through life are susceptible of happiness--
12. as every generous person increases his happiness by rejoicing in the happiness of others--
13. and as by means of this miraculous organ of sight, the beauties of earth are conspicuous, so in the first page of heaven expanded before us, to raise our hope to an assurance of further bliss.
14. The wonderful texture of the aye--
15. its retina (continued from the optick nerve) which is the proper organ of vision--
16. its coats--
17. humours--
18. and Iris, or circle surrounding the pupil, within which--
19. the images of things are distinctly painted.
20. The infinitely wise adjustment of nature demonstrated; inasmuch as the eye had been useless without the object, both eye and object useless without light, the eye, the object, and the light, still useless without the medium of air for conveyance, and altogether as useless without.
21. The mind, which only can perceive.
22. This paragraph was added as a hint of the following part, which chiefly treats of the arts and instincts of the inferior animal system: which subject, as it is less abstruse, so, it is probable, it will be more agreeable than any hitherto treated of.
",2009-09-14 19:36:27 UTC,"The mind ""speeds her ministry abroad, / And rules obedient matter with a nod"" as ""The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields, /And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields""",2004-07-28 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•Rich Passage. INTEREST. REVISIT. Another complete allegory of the soul's operations. Cross-reference Blackmore's Alfred and other such passages.
•I've included twice in Government: Rule of Reason and Ministers
,HDIS,11958,4548
"Just so supreme[1], unmated, and alone,
The Soul assumes her intellectual throne;
Around their queen attendant spirits watch,
Each rising thought with prompt observance catch,
The tidings of internal passion spread,
And thro' each part the swift contagion shed.
With motive throes the quickening limbs conceive;
The blood tempestuous, pours a flushing wave;
With raging swell alternate pantings rise;
And terrors rowl within the kindling eyes.
The mind thus speeds her ministry abroad,
And rules obedient matter with a nod;
The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields,
And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields.
Thro' winding paths[2] her sprightly envoys fly,
Or watchful in the frontier senses lie;
Brisk on the tongue[3] the grateful gusto greet,
And thro' the nerves return the ideal sweet;
Or incense[4] from the nostrils gate exhale,
And to their goddess waft the odorous gale;
Or musical to charm[5] the listening soul,
Attentive round the tortuous ear patrole,
There each sonorous undulation wait,
And thrill in rapture to the mental seat;
Or wondrous[6] to the organick vision pass,
And to the mind inflect the magick glass;
Here born elate[7] upon etherial tides,
The blythe illuminated glory glides,
And on the beam the painted image rides[8];
Those images that still continuous flow,
Effluviated around, above, below,
True to the colour, distance, shape, and size,
That from essential things perpetual rise,
And obvious gratulate[9] our wondering eyes;
Convey the bloom of nature's smiling scene[10],
The vernal landskip, and the watery main;
The flocks that nibble[11] on the flowery lawn,
The frisking lambkin, and the wanton fawn;
The sight[12] how grateful to the social soul,
That thus imbibes the blessings of the whole,
Joys in their joy, while each inspires his breast
With blessings multiplied from all that's blest!
Nor less yon heights[13] the unfolding heaven display,
Its nightly twinkle, and its streaming day;
The page impress'd conspicuous on the skies,
A preface to the Book of Glory lies;
We mount the steep, high born upon delight,
While hope aspires beyond--and distances the sight.
Thus heaven and earth, whom varying graces deck,
In full proportions paint the visual speck;
So awful did[14] the Almighty's forming will,
Amazing texture, and stupendous skill,
The visionary net[15] and tunics weave[16],
And the bright gem with lucid humours lave[17];
So gave the ball's collected ray to glow,
And round the pupil arch'd his radiant bow[18];
Full in a point[19] unmeasured spaces lie,
And worlds inclusive dwell within our eye.
Yet useless was[20] this textured wonder made,
Were Nature, beauteous object! undisplay'd;
Those, both as vain, the object, and the sight,
Wrapt from the radiance of revealing light;
As vain the bright illuminating beam,
Unwafted by the medium's airy stream:
Yet vain the textured eye, and object fair,
The sunny lustre, and continuous air;
Annull'd and blank this grand illustrious scene,
All, all its grace, and lifeless glories, vain;
Till from the Eternal[21] sprung this effluent Soul,
Bless'd to inspect, and comprehend the whole!
O whence, say whence this endless Beauty springs,
This awful, dear, delightful depth of things?
Whence but from Thee! Thou Great One! Thou Divine!
Placid! and Mild! All Gracious! All Benign!
Thou Nature's Parent! and Supreme Desire!
How loved the offspring!--and how bless'd the Sire!
How ever Bless'd! as blessings from Thee flow,
And spread all bounteous on Thy works below:
The reptile[22], wreathed in many a wanton play;
And insect, basking in the shine of day;
The grazing quadruped, and plumy choir
That earthly born to heavenly heights aspire;
All species, form'd beneath the solar beam,
That numberless adorn our future theme,--
Fed in Thy bounty, fashion'd in Thy Skill,
Cloath'd in Thy Love, instructed in Thy will,
Safe in Thy conduct, their unerring guide,
All-save the child of ignorance and pride--
The paths of Beauty and of Truth pursue,
And teach proud man those lectures which ensue!
NOTES
1. It is an observation of an author learned in the law, that ""non omne simile quatuor pedi-""bus currit;"" yet as our passions (the operation of which is above described) may be called a state of warfare, the simile even in that respect is not unjust.
2. did not think it necessary to insert here the sense of feeling, not only because there is no special or peculiar organ to which it bears relation, but because I take it for a sort of universal sense, all sensation being performed by contact; and so--
3. tasting--
4. smelling--
5. hearing, and--
6. seeing, being but a different kind of touch, or feeling, agreeable and accommodated to the difference of objects that are thereby perceived.
7. The manner in which the--
8. object is conveyed to the eye--
9. by whose second mediation the perceiving soul rejoices--
10. beholding the elegance and beauty of nature--
11. but chiefly those animated beings who through life are susceptible of happiness--
12. as every generous person increases his happiness by rejoicing in the happiness of others--
13. and as by means of this miraculous organ of sight, the beauties of earth are conspicuous, so in the first page of heaven expanded before us, to raise our hope to an assurance of further bliss.
14. The wonderful texture of the aye--
15. its retina (continued from the optick nerve) which is the proper organ of vision--
16. its coats--
17. humours--
18. and Iris, or circle surrounding the pupil, within which--
19. the images of things are distinctly painted.
20. The infinitely wise adjustment of nature demonstrated; inasmuch as the eye had been useless without the object, both eye and object useless without light, the eye, the object, and the light, still useless without the medium of air for conveyance, and altogether as useless without.
21. The mind, which only can perceive.
22. This paragraph was added as a hint of the following part, which chiefly treats of the arts and instincts of the inferior animal system: which subject, as it is less abstruse, so, it is probable, it will be more agreeable than any hitherto treated of.
",2009-09-14 19:36:27 UTC,"""Tho' winding paths"" the soul's ""sprightly envoys fly, / Or watchful in the frontier senses lie""",2004-07-28 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•Rich Passage. INTEREST. REVISIT. Another complete allegory of the soul's operations. Cross-reference Blackmore's Alfred and other such passages.
•I've included twice in Government: Rule of Reason and Ministers
,HDIS,11960,4548
"Just so supreme[1], unmated, and alone,
The Soul assumes her intellectual throne;
Around their queen attendant spirits watch,
Each rising thought with prompt observance catch,
The tidings of internal passion spread,
And thro' each part the swift contagion shed.
With motive throes the quickening limbs conceive;
The blood tempestuous, pours a flushing wave;
With raging swell alternate pantings rise;
And terrors rowl within the kindling eyes.
The mind thus speeds her ministry abroad,
And rules obedient matter with a nod;
The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields,
And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields.
Thro' winding paths[2] her sprightly envoys fly,
Or watchful in the frontier senses lie;
Brisk on the tongue[3] the grateful gusto greet,
And thro' the nerves return the ideal sweet;
Or incense[4] from the nostrils gate exhale,
And to their goddess waft the odorous gale;
Or musical to charm[5] the listening soul,
Attentive round the tortuous ear patrole,
There each sonorous undulation wait,
And thrill in rapture to the mental seat;
Or wondrous[6] to the organick vision pass,
And to the mind inflect the magick glass;
Here born elate[7] upon etherial tides,
The blythe illuminated glory glides,
And on the beam the painted image rides[8];
Those images that still continuous flow,
Effluviated around, above, below,
True to the colour, distance, shape, and size,
That from essential things perpetual rise,
And obvious gratulate[9] our wondering eyes;
Convey the bloom of nature's smiling scene[10],
The vernal landskip, and the watery main;
The flocks that nibble[11] on the flowery lawn,
The frisking lambkin, and the wanton fawn;
The sight[12] how grateful to the social soul,
That thus imbibes the blessings of the whole,
Joys in their joy, while each inspires his breast
With blessings multiplied from all that's blest!
Nor less yon heights[13] the unfolding heaven display,
Its nightly twinkle, and its streaming day;
The page impress'd conspicuous on the skies,
A preface to the Book of Glory lies;
We mount the steep, high born upon delight,
While hope aspires beyond--and distances the sight.
Thus heaven and earth, whom varying graces deck,
In full proportions paint the visual speck;
So awful did[14] the Almighty's forming will,
Amazing texture, and stupendous skill,
The visionary net[15] and tunics weave[16],
And the bright gem with lucid humours lave[17];
So gave the ball's collected ray to glow,
And round the pupil arch'd his radiant bow[18];
Full in a point[19] unmeasured spaces lie,
And worlds inclusive dwell within our eye.
Yet useless was[20] this textured wonder made,
Were Nature, beauteous object! undisplay'd;
Those, both as vain, the object, and the sight,
Wrapt from the radiance of revealing light;
As vain the bright illuminating beam,
Unwafted by the medium's airy stream:
Yet vain the textured eye, and object fair,
The sunny lustre, and continuous air;
Annull'd and blank this grand illustrious scene,
All, all its grace, and lifeless glories, vain;
Till from the Eternal[21] sprung this effluent Soul,
Bless'd to inspect, and comprehend the whole!
O whence, say whence this endless Beauty springs,
This awful, dear, delightful depth of things?
Whence but from Thee! Thou Great One! Thou Divine!
Placid! and Mild! All Gracious! All Benign!
Thou Nature's Parent! and Supreme Desire!
How loved the offspring!--and how bless'd the Sire!
How ever Bless'd! as blessings from Thee flow,
And spread all bounteous on Thy works below:
The reptile[22], wreathed in many a wanton play;
And insect, basking in the shine of day;
The grazing quadruped, and plumy choir
That earthly born to heavenly heights aspire;
All species, form'd beneath the solar beam,
That numberless adorn our future theme,--
Fed in Thy bounty, fashion'd in Thy Skill,
Cloath'd in Thy Love, instructed in Thy will,
Safe in Thy conduct, their unerring guide,
All-save the child of ignorance and pride--
The paths of Beauty and of Truth pursue,
And teach proud man those lectures which ensue!
NOTES
1. It is an observation of an author learned in the law, that ""non omne simile quatuor pedi-""bus currit;"" yet as our passions (the operation of which is above described) may be called a state of warfare, the simile even in that respect is not unjust.
2. did not think it necessary to insert here the sense of feeling, not only because there is no special or peculiar organ to which it bears relation, but because I take it for a sort of universal sense, all sensation being performed by contact; and so--
3. tasting--
4. smelling--
5. hearing, and--
6. seeing, being but a different kind of touch, or feeling, agreeable and accommodated to the difference of objects that are thereby perceived.
7. The manner in which the--
8. object is conveyed to the eye--
9. by whose second mediation the perceiving soul rejoices--
10. beholding the elegance and beauty of nature--
11. but chiefly those animated beings who through life are susceptible of happiness--
12. as every generous person increases his happiness by rejoicing in the happiness of others--
13. and as by means of this miraculous organ of sight, the beauties of earth are conspicuous, so in the first page of heaven expanded before us, to raise our hope to an assurance of further bliss.
14. The wonderful texture of the aye--
15. its retina (continued from the optick nerve) which is the proper organ of vision--
16. its coats--
17. humours--
18. and Iris, or circle surrounding the pupil, within which--
19. the images of things are distinctly painted.
20. The infinitely wise adjustment of nature demonstrated; inasmuch as the eye had been useless without the object, both eye and object useless without light, the eye, the object, and the light, still useless without the medium of air for conveyance, and altogether as useless without.
21. The mind, which only can perceive.
22. This paragraph was added as a hint of the following part, which chiefly treats of the arts and instincts of the inferior animal system: which subject, as it is less abstruse, so, it is probable, it will be more agreeable than any hitherto treated of.
",2013-06-26 16:32:05 UTC,"[Allegories of taste, smell, sound, and vision.]",2004-07-28 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•Rich Passage. INTEREST. REVISIT. Another complete allegory of the soul's operations. Cross-reference Blackmore's Alfred and other such passages.
•I've included twice in Government: Rule of Reason and Ministers
,HDIS,11961,4548
"O say, while yet, nor time, nor place was found,
And space immense in its own depth was drown'd;
If Nothing was, or Something yet was not,
Or tho' to be, e'erwhile was unbegot;
If caused, then how?--if causeless, why effect?
(No hand to form, nor model to direct)
Why ever made?--so soon?--or why so late?
What chance, what will, what freedom, or what fate?--
Matter, and spirit, fire, air, ocean, earth;
All Nature born, nor conscious of its birth!--
Alike unconscious did the womb disclose,
And Nothing wonder'd whence this Something rose--
Then, by what power?--or what such power could move?
Wisdom, or chance?--necessity, or love?
O, from what root could such high plenty grow?
From what deep fount such boundless oceans flow?
What fund could such unwearied wealth afford?
Subjects unnumber'd! where, O where's your Lord?
Whence are your attributes of time and place
Won from eternity and boundless space?
Motion from rest? just order from misrule?
A world from nought?--all empty, now all full!
From silence harmony? from darkness light?
And beamy day from everlasting night?[1]
Light, matter, motion, music, order, laws!
And silent dark nonentity the cause?
But chance, you'll say--I ask you, chance of what,
If nothing was?--'tis answer'd, chance of nought.
Alike from matter moved[2], could Beauty rise,
The florid planets, and gay ambient skies;
Or painted skies, and rolling orbs, dispense
Perception, life, thought, reason, judgment, sense.
Mysterious Thought! swift Angel of the mind!
By space unbounded, tho' to space confined,
How dost thou glow with just disdain, how scorn,
That thought could ever think thee earthly born?
Thou who canst distance motion in thy flight,
Wing with aspiring plume the wondrous height,
Swifter than light outspeed the flame of day,
Pierce thro' the dark profound, and shame the darting ray;
Throughout the universal system range,
New form old systems, and new systems change;
Thro' nature traffick on, from pole to pole,
And stamp new worlds on thy dilated soul;
(By time unlimited, unbound by space)
Sure demonstration of thy heavenly race,
Derived from that, which is derived from none,
Which ever is--but of Himself alone!",2009-09-14 19:36:27 UTC,""" Thro' nature traffick on, from pole to pole, / And stamp new worlds on thy dilated soul""",2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","",HDIS (Poetry),11968,4548
"But vain those gifts[1], those graces to relate,
Which all perceive, and envy deems complete.
""O Nature!"" cries the wretch of human birth,
""O why a step-dame to this lord of earth?
""To brutes indulgent[2] bends thy partial care,
""While just complainings fill our natal air.
""Helpless, uncloathed, the pride of nature lies,
""And Heaven relentless hears his viceroy's cries.
""O wherefore not with native bounties bless'd,
""Nor thus in humble poor dependance dress'd?
""Give me the self-born garb, the bark of trees,
""The downy feather, and the wintry fleece;
""The crocodile's invulnerable scale,
""Or the firm tortoise's impervious mail;
""The strength of elephants, the rein deer's speed,
""Fleet and elastic as the bounding steed;
""The peacock's state of gorgeous plumage add,
""Gay as the dove in golden verdure clad;
""Give me the scent of each sagacious hound,
""The lynx's eye, and linnet's warbling sound;
""The soaring wing and steerage of the crane,
""And spare the toil and dangers of the main:
""O why of these thy bounteous goods bereft,
""And only to interior Reason left?
""There, there alone, I bless thy kind decree;
""Nor cause of grief, or emulation see.""",2009-09-14 19:36:28 UTC,"""'O why of these thy bounteous goods bereft, / 'And only to interior Reason left?""",2005-08-09 00:00:00 UTC,"",Inwardness,,"",
,"Searching ""mind"" and ""interio"" in HDIS (Poetry)",11980,4548
"Come then, O Gratitude, endearing guest,
In all thy feeling soft suggestions drest,
And heave the swell of each exulting breast!
Thou Sentiment of friendship's cordial tye!
Thou Thanks expressive from the moistening eye!
Thou pledge assured of firm Dependence dear,
Reposed on Omnipresence, ever near--
Thro' all that breathe, waft, waft thy hallow'd gale,
And let the universal wish exhale;
In symphony of vocal transport raise,
And mount to Heaven the tributary praise!
Whence, happy creatures! all your blessings flow,
Your voice to praise Him, and your skill to know;
Whence, as the drops that deck the morning's robe,
And gem the bosom of the twinkling globe,
Profusive gifts the Smiling Goodness sheds,
And boon around His boundless plenty spreads;
Nought, nought exempt; the myriad minim race
Inscrutable amid[1] the etherial space,
That mock unseen, while human optic pries
Or aids the search with microscopic eyes,
The sweets of Deified Complacence claim;
To Him display the wonders of their frame,
His own contexture, where Eternal Art,
Emotive, pants[2] within the alternate heart:
Here from the lungs the purple currents glide,
And hence impulsive bounds the sanguine tide,
With blithe pulsation beats the arterial maze,
And thro' the branching complication plays;
Its wanton floods the tubal system lave,
And to the veins resign their vital wave;
Thro' glands refining[3], shed specific juice,
Secreted nice to each appropriate use;
Or here expansile[4], in meanders bend,
While thro' the pores nutritive portions tend,
Their equal aliment dividual share,
And similar to kindred parts adhere.
From thousand rills the flux continuous drains,
Now swells the porta, now the cava veins;
Here rallies last the recollected blood,
And on the right pours in the cordial flood:
While gales ingredient[5] to the thorax pass,
And breathing lungs imbibe the etherial mass;
Whence, their licentious ducts dilation claim,
And open obvious to the welcome stream,
Which salient, thro' the heart's contractile force,
Expulsive springs its recontinual course.
The captive air impatient of retreat,
Refines expansive with internal heat,
Its levity too rare to poise the exterior weight;
Compressive round the incumbent æther lies,
And strict its elemental fold applies,
Whence either pulmonary lobe expires,
And all the interior subtile breath retires;
Subsiding lungs[6] their labouring vessels press,
Affected mutual with severe distress,
While towards the left their confluent torrents gush,
And on the heart's sinister cavern rush;
Collected there complete their circling rout,
And vigorous from their venal engine shoot.
Again the heart's constrictive powers revive,
And the fresh fountain thro' the Aorta drive;
Arterial valves oppose the refluent blood,
And swift injections push the lingering flood;
Sped by the last, the foremost currents bound,
And thus perennial run the purpling round.",2009-09-14 19:36:28 UTC,"""Whence either pulmonary lobe expires, / And all the interior subtile breath retires; / Subsiding lungs[6] their labouring vessels press, / Affected mutual with severe distress, / While towards the left their confluent torrents gush, / And on the heart's sinister cavern rush;""",2006-01-18 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•Another case of a physiological metaphor. Compare examples in Blackmore's Creation. ,"Searching ""heart"" and ""cave"" in HDIS (Poetry)",11986,4548
"Or rather Thou, whom ancient prophet stiles
Venus Urania![1] born the babe of smiles,
When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung,
And Nature on thy form divinely hung;
Whose steps, by Loves and Graces kiss'd, advance,
And laughing Hours lead on the sprightly dance;
While Time, within eternal durance bound,
Harmonious moves on golden hinges round--
Such, Goddess! as when Silence wondering gazed,
And even thyself beheld thyself amazed;
Such haply by that Côon artist[2] known,
Seated apparent queen on Fancy's throne;
From thence thy shape his happy canvas blest,
And colours dipt in heaven thy heavenly form confest--
Such, Goddess! thro' this virgin foliage shine;
Let kindling beauties glow thro' every line,
And every eye confess the work divine.",2009-09-14 19:36:28 UTC,"""Such haply by that Côon artist known, / Seated apparent queen on Fancy's throne; / From thence thy shape his happy canvas blest, / And colours dipt in heaven thy heavenly form confest""",2006-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","•Footnote gives, ""Apelles, born in the island Cos or Côos.""","Searching ""fancy"" and ""throne"" in HDIS (Poetry)",11988,4548