231. For Tragedy 241. For artless Nature 247. The Genius of
Taste 259. V. The Senses easily form and repeat ideas 269. Imitation
from clear ideas 279. The Senses imitate each other 293. In dancing
295. In drawing naked Nymphs 299. In Architecture, as at St. Peter's
at Rome 303. Mimickry 319. VI. Natural Language from imitation 335.
Language of Quails, Cocks, Lions, Boxers 343. Pantomime Action 357.
Verbal Language from Imitation and Association 363. Symbols of ideas
371. Gigantic form of Time 385. Wings of Hermes 391. VII. Recollection
from clear ideas 395. Reason and Volition 401. Arts of the Wasp, Bee,
Spider, Wren, Silk-Worm 411. Volition concerned about Means or Causes
435. Man distinguished by Language, by using Tools, labouring for
Money, praying to the Deity 438. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and
Evil 445. VIII. Emotions from Imitation 461. The Seraph; Sympathy 467.
Christian Morality the great bond of Society 483-496.

CANTO III.

PROGRESS OF THE MIND.

I. Now rose, adorn'd with Beauty's brightest hues,
The graceful HIEROPHANT, and winged MUSE;
Onward they step around the stately piles,
O'er porcelain floors, through laqueated ailes,
Eye Nature's lofty and her lowly seats,
Her gorgeous palaces, and green retreats,
Pervade her labyrinths with unerring tread,
And leave for future guests a guiding thread.

First with fond gaze blue fields of air they sweep,
Or pierce the briny chambers of the deep; 10
Earth's burning line, and icy poles explore,
Her fertile surface, and her caves of ore;
Or mark how Oxygen with Azote-Gas
Plays round the globe in one aerial mass,
Or fused with Hydrogen in ceaseless flow
Forms the wide waves, which foam and roll below.

[Footnote: _How Oxygen_, l. 13. The atmosphere which
surrounds us, is composed of twenty-seven parts of oxygen gas
and seventy-three of azote or nitrogen gas, which are simply
diffused together, but which, when combined, become nitrous
acid. Water consists of eighty-six parts oxygen, and fourteen
parts of hydrogen or inflammable air, in a state of
combination. It is also probable, that much oxygen enters the
composition of glass; as those materials which promote
vitrification, contain so much of it, as minium and
manganese; and that glass is hence a solid acid in the
temperature of our atmospher