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Excerpt from The Poems of the Pleasures: Consisting of the Pleasures of Imagination, by Mark Akenside, M. D.; The Pleasures of Memory, by Samuel Rogers, Esq.; The Pleasures of Hope, by Thomas Campbell, A. M.; The Pleasures of Friendship, by James M'henry, M. D.; With a Memoir of Each Author
A class of ethical poems on the pleasures deriva ble from the mental faculties and emotions, appears to be peculiar to modern times and to British literature. Among the poems transmitted to us by' the ancients, that which makes the nearest approach to the charac ter of these productions, is the Art of Love, by Ovid. Had this poem been entitled the Pleasures of Love, it might have been supposed, not only as legitimately belonging to the class in question, but as being its earliest successful example. 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.
