1 12 M. de Polier on the Pleqfures of the Mind 
her in that (late, fo beautifully deferibed by 
Akenfide, when he fays, in his Pleafures of 
Imagination, 
--** The high born Joul 
Difdains to reft her heav’n afpiring wing 
Beneath its native quarry. Tir’d of earth 
And this diurnal feene, fhe fprings aloft. 
Through fields of air; purfues the flying ftorm. 
Rides on the vollied light’ning through the heav’ns; 
Or, yok’d with whirlwinds and the northern blaft. 
Sweeps the long traft of day.” 
I omit the reft of that noble paffage, too long to 
be here inferted; but written with all the enthu- 
fiafrn of poetic genius , joined to all the fweetnefs and 
harmony of numbers. 
Vide Akenside’s Pleaf. of Imag. B. I, Ver. 183. 
The hiftory of Archimedes , the famous Sicilian 
Philofopher, is well known. Neither the fenfe 
of decency on one occafion, nor the fenfe of 
danger on another, could divert his thoughts 
from the objedt they had in view, and from the 
pleafure they afforded him. If the truth of thefe 
furprizing anecdotes may be doubted, let us at 
lead acknowledge the poffibility of them, from 
what we may obferve every day among us. 
Would not one imagine, on feeing a Chefs-player, 
for inftance, fo entirely wrapt up in himfelf, as 
to appear infenfible to every thing around him, 
that he is taken up with the care of his own 
fortune, the prefervation of the date, or fome 
fucli 
