Say why was man so eminently raised
- DMI number:
- 25495
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Say why was man so eminently raised
- Last Line:
- Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quelled
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Blank verse
- Themes:
- Philosophical enquiry
- Author:
- Mark Akenside
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Pleasures of Imagination (Book 1). Dix (1996): 91-153.
- First Line:
- Call now to mind what high capacious powers
- Last Line:
- Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quelled
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Say why was man so eminently raised
- Last Line:
- And infinite perfection close the scene
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The moral miscellany or, a collection of select pieces in prose and verse for the instruction and entertainment of youth [T119967] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.388-390
- Poem Title:
- The final Cause of the Pleasures we receive from the Grandeur and Novelty of Objects.
- Attribution:
- [Pleasures of Imagination]
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- Title:
- The moral miscellany or, a collection of select pieces in prose and verse for the instruction and entertainment of youth [T123215] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.358-361
- Poem Title:
- The final Cause of the Pleasures we receive from the Grandeur and Novelty of Objects.
- Attribution:
- [Pleasures of Imagination]
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- Title:
- The moral miscellany or, a collection of select pieces in prose and verse for the instruction and entertainment of youth [T131121]
- Page No(s):
- pp.358-360
- Poem Title:
- The final Cause of the Pleasures we receive from the Grandeur and Novelty of Objects.
- Attribution:
- [Pleasures of Imagination]
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
Poem Aliases
Akenside. Pleasures of Imagination. Book 1.
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