Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside: Containing His Pleasures of Imagination, Odes, Miscellanies, Hymns, Inscriptions, &C. &C. &C Our Author felt the impull'e of his Mule at a very early period of life; and his mind feems to have been well ftored with images and 'entiments. The Plea fures of Imagination appeared in 1744, when he had only attained to his twenty-third year. Dr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.