ON THE

LIFE, WRITINGS, AND GENIUS

OP

AKENSIDE.

ON THE

LIFE, WRITINGS, AND GENIUS

OF

A KENSIDE:

WITH

SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS FRIENDS.

BY CHARLES BUCKE,

AUTHOR OF THE BEAUTIES, HARMONIES, AND BOBLIMITIES OF

NATURE,

“ The spacious west,
And all the teening regions of the south,
Hold not a quarry to the curious flight
Of knowledge, half so tempting and so fair
As AIAN to MAN."

Pleasures of Imagination.

LONDON:
JAMES COCHRANE AND CO., WATERLOO.PLACE.

1832

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

DAVIS

London, 1832, Published by Jamas Cochrana de CiU. Waterloo Poso.