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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Page iv
... flow naturally from the subject , like small streams which wander from their native channel ; they should always be concise and illustrative of some truth advanced in the poem . In didactic poetry a skilful arrangement should be ...
... flow naturally from the subject , like small streams which wander from their native channel ; they should always be concise and illustrative of some truth advanced in the poem . In didactic poetry a skilful arrangement should be ...
Page viii
... flow- ers . The slightest impulse is at times sufficient to rouse the full strength of genius . A spark com- municated excites the most terrible explosion . The greatest river proceeds from the smallest fountain , rolls its waves over a ...
... flow- ers . The slightest impulse is at times sufficient to rouse the full strength of genius . A spark com- municated excites the most terrible explosion . The greatest river proceeds from the smallest fountain , rolls its waves over a ...
Page 35
... flows his Muse more fruitful than the Nile . 90 In his sweet song Arcadia blooms again , Breathes its perfumes and waves its yellow grain . Subjects of grandeur , beautiful or new Invention loves , on these she bends her view , These ...
... flows his Muse more fruitful than the Nile . 90 In his sweet song Arcadia blooms again , Breathes its perfumes and waves its yellow grain . Subjects of grandeur , beautiful or new Invention loves , on these she bends her view , These ...
Page 37
... flows the breath of every flower , And wildest music breaks from every bower . Thou murmuring breeze ! O bear upon thy wing That strain , which flows from Petrarch's * mournful string . 120 pastorals have little more to recommend them ...
... flows the breath of every flower , And wildest music breaks from every bower . Thou murmuring breeze ! O bear upon thy wing That strain , which flows from Petrarch's * mournful string . 120 pastorals have little more to recommend them ...
Page 48
... flows that lay , Which now in murmurs softly dies away ; * Colonna bending o'er her husband's bier , 250 Breathes those ... flow . In Woolstonecraft's strong lines behold confest The fatal errors of the female breast . Behold enforc'd in ...
... flows that lay , Which now in murmurs softly dies away ; * Colonna bending o'er her husband's bier , 250 Breathes those ... flow . In Woolstonecraft's strong lines behold confest The fatal errors of the female breast . Behold enforc'd in ...
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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