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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... appear And sounds celestial melt upon her ear ; 30 Ev'n then enwrapt with murkiest shades she walks , Pours sweetest ... appears Which long lay buried in the depth of years ; The active principle on her relies , On her foundation bids ...
... appear And sounds celestial melt upon her ear ; 30 Ev'n then enwrapt with murkiest shades she walks , Pours sweetest ... appears Which long lay buried in the depth of years ; The active principle on her relies , On her foundation bids ...
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... appears ; Youth sometimes burns with all the poet's rage , And speaks the glory of a riper age . * 50 * Cowley , Dryden , and Chatterton , wrote several admired poems at a very early age . Milton wrote his paraphrases of the CXIV and ...
... appears ; Youth sometimes burns with all the poet's rage , And speaks the glory of a riper age . * 50 * Cowley , Dryden , and Chatterton , wrote several admired poems at a very early age . Milton wrote his paraphrases of the CXIV and ...
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... appears in pain , And shews a moon - struck phrenzy of the brain ; The world cries out , " What ails our neighbour's lad ? ' Tis pity of the boy , for he is mad ; " He often laughs aloud , and none know why , " And looks so strange and ...
... appears in pain , And shews a moon - struck phrenzy of the brain ; The world cries out , " What ails our neighbour's lad ? ' Tis pity of the boy , for he is mad ; " He often laughs aloud , and none know why , " And looks so strange and ...
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... appears , the moon withdraws her beams , And all the thickets sound with frightful screams ; The critic's voice is now as hush'd as death , His eyes are fix'd , we scarcely hear his breath ; Great Shakespear * now commands the midnight ...
... appears , the moon withdraws her beams , And all the thickets sound with frightful screams ; The critic's voice is now as hush'd as death , His eyes are fix'd , we scarcely hear his breath ; Great Shakespear * now commands the midnight ...
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... appear'd the evening star , * Horatio .... Well , sit we down , And let us hear Bernardo speak of this . Bernardo .... Last night of all , When yon same star that's westward from the pole , Had made his course to illume that part of ...
... appear'd the evening star , * Horatio .... Well , sit we down , And let us hear Bernardo speak of this . Bernardo .... Last night of all , When yon same star that's westward from the pole , Had made his course to illume that part of ...
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