Mark Akenside

Sketch of Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside (November 9, 1721 – June 23, 1770) was an English poet and physician.

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• Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys,
  And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
  • The Virtuoso (1737), Stanza x.

• Such and so various are the tastes of men.
  • The Pleasures of the Imagination (published 1744), Book iii. Line 567.

• The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
  And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
  • Epistle to Curio (1744).

• Than Timoleon's arms require,
  And Tully’s curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.
  • "On a Sermon against Glory", Odes on Several Subjects (1745), Stanza ii.

External links

• Works by Mark Akenside at Project Gutenberg