General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1835 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Pro. Deqm not that wilful arrogance imposes This silence on my lips; I feel consumed My heart, by melancholy thought, beholding These fetters contumacious. Did not I, And I alone, for these new gods define Their dignities and honours ? What is known To you already, let me pass untold ! You must have heard of my offence, committed (n) In raising man from former ignorance To intellectual character and power. And now, without inculpating his race, That my intentions were benevolent, To show I will enumerate my gifts. Who previously beheld, beheld in vain ; Hearing they did not hear; while time rolled on, Mingling all things by chance, as oft occurs In dreams nocturnal. Nor had men, as yet, The use of pleasant residences known, Located in Apollo's genial ray, And built of well-formed bricks; nor to convert The forest to their purpose skilfully, Dwelling, like slender, agile ants, beneath, In caves not warmed or lighted by the sun : Nor had they any sign discriminative To indicate the limits that divide Winter from flowery spring, and separate The spring from fruitful summer; but performed Without reflection every needful act. The rising of the stars I taught moreover, And showed their setting, hard to be discerned. On them the use of numbers -- excellent Invention ! -- and the art by which, combined, Letters express man's thoughts ; and Memory -- Of every science great artificer, And parent of the Muses -- I bestowed. I to the yoke and burden first subjected The servile animals, that these for man Vicarial duties might perform, assisting His most laborious efforts : to the chariot I led t...
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