“Adieu, for him,
The dull engagements of the bustling world!
Adieu the sick impertinence of praise!
And hope, and action! for with her alone,
By streams and shades, to steal these sighing hours,
Is all he asks, and all that fate can give!”

—  Mark Akenside, book The Pleasures of the Imagination

Book III, lines 173–178
The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)

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