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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... Homer wrote no critic's laws confin'd , The outstretch'd genius of his soaring mind ; He look'd on Nature , Nature's voice obey'd , And snatch'd that glory which can never fade ; appeared in the world , we will find that they were all ...
... Homer wrote no critic's laws confin'd , The outstretch'd genius of his soaring mind ; He look'd on Nature , Nature's voice obey'd , And snatch'd that glory which can never fade ; appeared in the world , we will find that they were all ...
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... Homer's Iliad .--- Whereas Ariosto disdained any imi- tation . He delighted in the sublimity of irregularity . His flight is regulated by no rules . He soars beyond the reach of criticism . Sour- * Burns , to an exquisite sensibility ...
... Homer's Iliad .--- Whereas Ariosto disdained any imi- tation . He delighted in the sublimity of irregularity . His flight is regulated by no rules . He soars beyond the reach of criticism . Sour- * Burns , to an exquisite sensibility ...
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... Homer's head . Rous'd by the wonders of the classic page , He gave to study all his early age ; In thirst of knowledge and his favourite lore He sought instruction on a foreign.shore , Courted the Muses in Italian plains 60 Where his ...
... Homer's head . Rous'd by the wonders of the classic page , He gave to study all his early age ; In thirst of knowledge and his favourite lore He sought instruction on a foreign.shore , Courted the Muses in Italian plains 60 Where his ...
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... Homer's name . 260 Hear Montague repel light Voltaire's rage , Who like a butcher mangled Shakespeare's page . Hear from the bosom of the pious Rowe The tender strain and warm devotion flow . In Woolstonecraft's strong lines behold ...
... Homer's name . 260 Hear Montague repel light Voltaire's rage , Who like a butcher mangled Shakespeare's page . Hear from the bosom of the pious Rowe The tender strain and warm devotion flow . In Woolstonecraft's strong lines behold ...
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... Homer with the heroic poets who have succeeded him ; but it requires very little judg- ment to see , that no succeeding poet , whatever , can with propriety be compared with Homer . That great father of the Grecian poetry and literature ...
... Homer with the heroic poets who have succeeded him ; but it requires very little judg- ment to see , that no succeeding poet , whatever , can with propriety be compared with Homer . That great father of the Grecian poetry and literature ...
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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