Mark Akenside Quotes

Mark Akenside was an English poet and physician.

✵ 9. November 1721 – 23. June 1770
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“Heaven's all-subduing will,
With good the progeny of ill,
Attempreth every state below.”

Book I, Ode II, No. 2: "On the Winter Solstice", stanza vi, lines 58–60
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)

“The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.”

Source: Epistle to Curio (1744), Lines 197–198

“Youth calls for Pleasure, Pleasure calls for Love.”

"Love, An Elegy", line 90

“The Providence of heaven
Has some peculiar blessing given
To each allotted state below.”

Book I, Ode II, No. 1: "For the Winter Solstice", stanza v, lines 48–50
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)

Mark Akenside Quotes

“Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys,
And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.”

The Virtuoso (1737), stanza x, lines 89–90

“Oft the hours
From morn to eve have stolen unmark'd away,
While mute attention hung upon his lips.”

Book II, lines 183–185
The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)

“Pall on her temper, like a twice-told tale.”

Book I, line 220
The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)

“Rustic herald of the spring.”

Book II, Ode III: "To the Cuckoo", stanza i, line 1
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)

“Than Timoleon's arms require,
And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.”

Book I, Ode XVII: "On a Sermon against Glory", stanza ii, lines 17–18
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)

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