ON THE

LIFE, WRITINGS, AND GENIUS

OF

AKENSIDE:

WITH

SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS FRIENDS.

BY CHARLES BUCKE,

AUTHOR OF THE BEAUTIES, HARMONIES, AND SUBLIMITIES OF

NATURE,

"The spacious west,

And all the teeming regions of the south,
Hold not a quarry to the curious flight
Of knowledge, half so tempting and so fair
As MAN to MAN."

Pleasures of Imagination.

LONDON:

JAMES COCHRANE AND CO.,

WATERLOO-PLACE.

1832

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DAVIS

A Pond pinx!

AKEN SIDE.

Worthington sculp?.

London, 1832, Published by James Cochrane & CLI,Waterle Place.