The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three PartsAlbion Press: : Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy Lane, for T. Williams, Stationers' Court, and T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row, 1804 - 155 pages |
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... bear the bounty which her hands bestow , But if to Nature and her free controul , Be unmolested left the human soul , In deepest ignorance she would ever dwell , Dungeon'd with Night within her gloomy cell . Different in man we see the ...
... bear the bounty which her hands bestow , But if to Nature and her free controul , Be unmolested left the human soul , In deepest ignorance she would ever dwell , Dungeon'd with Night within her gloomy cell . Different in man we see the ...
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... bears him above every difficulty . Amid fields of unlimited space he could only stretch his wings . His immense bark could float on no other waves than those of the ocean . mighty arm would wield no sword but that of Orlando , which ...
... bears him above every difficulty . Amid fields of unlimited space he could only stretch his wings . His immense bark could float on no other waves than those of the ocean . mighty arm would wield no sword but that of Orlando , which ...
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... bear , They leap the precipice and breast the air , Follow the chamois on the pointed rock , 320 And clamber heights to seek their bearded flock . Loud from the Baltic * sounds the dreadful storm And gathering hosts the face of day ...
... bear , They leap the precipice and breast the air , Follow the chamois on the pointed rock , 320 And clamber heights to seek their bearded flock . Loud from the Baltic * sounds the dreadful storm And gathering hosts the face of day ...
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... bear upon thy wing That strain , which flows from Petrarch's * mournful string . 120 pastorals have little more to recommend them than their smoothness of versification . The writer who approaches nearest to the great master of this ...
... bear upon thy wing That strain , which flows from Petrarch's * mournful string . 120 pastorals have little more to recommend them than their smoothness of versification . The writer who approaches nearest to the great master of this ...
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... Soon after , writing to a friend , he says , " These laurels which encircled my head were too green ; had I been of riper age and understanding I would Petrarch . Thou stream of Time ! bear in thy 38 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
... Soon after , writing to a friend , he says , " These laurels which encircled my head were too green ; had I been of riper age and understanding I would Petrarch . Thou stream of Time ! bear in thy 38 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
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amid APPENDIX Ariosto arms art thou bard beam beauty behold beneath bids blast bold bosom breast breath brow Chill clouds dark death delight Demosthenes divine dwell earth Eclogues fame Fancy Fingal fire footsteps Gallileo Genius give gloomy glory Greece head hear heart heaven Henry Fielding honours idolatry Iliad Invention kindled king light literature lyre Massillon MIDNIGHT HYMN mighty Milton mind morning mountains mournful muse Nature Nature's never night numbers o'er Orla Ossian Paradise Lost passions peace Petrarch Pindar plains poem poet poetry repose rise roll Rome rous'd Sappho says scene shades Shakespeare shew Sir William Jones sleep smile song sorrow soul sound spirit spread storm strain stream sublimity sword taste tears tempest terror thee thou thoughts thro throne thunder tion toil truth vale Vaucluse wandering waves wild winds wings writers youth
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