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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... fine exhibition of untutored genius . It discovers the powerful influence which the scenes of nature have upon the feeling bosom . The de- scriptions which it contains are accurate , but they are in- ferior to those of Burns in a ...
... fine exhibition of untutored genius . It discovers the powerful influence which the scenes of nature have upon the feeling bosom . The de- scriptions which it contains are accurate , but they are in- ferior to those of Burns in a ...
Page 34
... fine satires ; and bis Irene , if not calculated for the stage , will please in the closet . His Prefaces , to his Dictionary and to his Shakespeare , exceed all performances of the kind in the English language . Biography has been co ...
... fine satires ; and bis Irene , if not calculated for the stage , will please in the closet . His Prefaces , to his Dictionary and to his Shakespeare , exceed all performances of the kind in the English language . Biography has been co ...
Page 53
... grace . DU FRESNOY . MASON . + Sculpture is acknowledged to be one of the most difficult of the fine arts . It is remarkable that it was the favourite Music . Rouz'd by her fire the voice of music E 3 THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 53.
... grace . DU FRESNOY . MASON . + Sculpture is acknowledged to be one of the most difficult of the fine arts . It is remarkable that it was the favourite Music . Rouz'd by her fire the voice of music E 3 THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 53.
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... fine contrast with the gloom and heaviness of the Gothic castle .--- From the houses and pa- godas of the Chinese , the wigwam of the Indian , and the hut of the Hottentot , we may almost be taught the charac- ters of their inhabitants ...
... fine contrast with the gloom and heaviness of the Gothic castle .--- From the houses and pa- godas of the Chinese , the wigwam of the Indian , and the hut of the Hottentot , we may almost be taught the charac- ters of their inhabitants ...
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... fine arts , the Romans , the con- querors of the universe , were all unfortunately ce- lebrated for the perversion of religious worship , for the gross errors they admitted into their be- lief , and the indignities they offered to the ...
... fine arts , the Romans , the con- querors of the universe , were all unfortunately ce- lebrated for the perversion of religious worship , for the gross errors they admitted into their be- lief , and the indignities they offered to the ...
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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 elegant fame Fancy Fingal fire footsteps Gallileo Genius give gloom glory Greece head hear heart heaven Henry Fielding honours Hope 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 POWERS OF GENIUS repose rise roll Rome rous'd Sappho says scenes shades Shakespeare shew Sir William Jones smile song sorrow soul spirit spread storm strain stream sublimity sword taste tears terror thee thou thoughts thro throne thunder tion toil truth vale Vaucluse wandering waves wild winds wings youth