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 40
... Pindar would expire ! 131 loss , I have written it , with a pleasure mixed with bitterness , in a book to which I often refer . Since the strongest cord of my life is now broken , with the grace of God I shall easily renounce a world ...
... Pindar would expire ! 131 loss , I have written it , with a pleasure mixed with bitterness , in a book to which I often refer . Since the strongest cord of my life is now broken , with the grace of God I shall easily renounce a world ...
Page 47
... Pindar on her eagle wing . --With " Lion port " and with a nervous hand , Eliza sway'd the sceptre of her land . --Nurs'd on the bosom of luxurious France , The queen of Scotland led the airy dance , Love's softest lustre wanton'd o'er ...
... Pindar on her eagle wing . --With " Lion port " and with a nervous hand , Eliza sway'd the sceptre of her land . --Nurs'd on the bosom of luxurious France , The queen of Scotland led the airy dance , Love's softest lustre wanton'd o'er ...
Page 73
... Pindar , or a Menander . The head of gold has fallen a prey to time . His cankering tooth has devoured the arms and the trunk ; and the iron dust has been blown before the winds of the north . How dignified is the task of the historian ...
... Pindar , or a Menander . The head of gold has fallen a prey to time . His cankering tooth has devoured the arms and the trunk ; and the iron dust has been blown before the winds of the north . How dignified is the task of the historian ...
Page 136
... Ilyssu's stream . O let me catch that matchless song , Which comes from old Achaia's lyre , And wafted to the Olympic throng , Bask in the blaze of Pindar's fire . ADDRESS TO MY TAPER . How fast thy slender form 136 MISCELLANIES .
... Ilyssu's stream . O let me catch that matchless song , Which comes from old Achaia's lyre , And wafted to the Olympic throng , Bask in the blaze of Pindar's fire . ADDRESS TO MY TAPER . How fast thy slender form 136 MISCELLANIES .
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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