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Akenside, Mark
(1721-1770) British writer. Mark Akenside was a poet and physician, known for The Pleasures of Imagination (1744), Odes on Various Subjects (1745) and the Epistle to Curio (1744).
For a Column At Runnymede - Mark Akenside (1720-1770)
Read "For a Column at Runnymede," by Mark Akenside. "Thou, who the verdant plain dost traverse here / While Thames among his willows from thy view / Retires; O stranger, stay thee, and the scene / Around contemplate well."
Hymn to Science - Mark Akenside (1720-1770)
Read "Hymn to Science," by Mark Akenside. "Science! thou fair effusive ray / From the great source of mental day, / Free, generous, and refin'd!"
Ode to The Country Gentlemen Of England - Mark Akenside (1720-1770)
Read "Ode to The Country Gentlemen Of England," by Mark Akenside. "Thou, heedless Albion, what, alas, the while / Dost thou presume? O inexpert in arms, / Yet vain of freedom, how dost thou beguile, / With dreams of hope, these near and loud alarms?"