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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... bard's descriptive strains ; Who loves to listen to the feathered throng , Enraptur'd hears the poet raise his song . * 189 * That mind possesses the seeds of taste , and frequently of immitative genius , which is powerfully impressed ...
... bard's descriptive strains ; Who loves to listen to the feathered throng , Enraptur'd hears the poet raise his song . * 189 * That mind possesses the seeds of taste , and frequently of immitative genius , which is powerfully impressed ...
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... Bard could please me but whose lyre was tun'd To nature's Praises . Heroes and their feats Fatigu'd me , never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus , assembling as he sung , The rustic throng beneath his favourite beech . Then Milton had indeed ...
... Bard could please me but whose lyre was tun'd To nature's Praises . Heroes and their feats Fatigu'd me , never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus , assembling as he sung , The rustic throng beneath his favourite beech . Then Milton had indeed ...
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... bard of other times , May thy bold spirit visit these dull climes ! May the brave chieftains of thy rugged plains , Remember Ossian * and revere his strains ! 260 There was Ossian may be called the most mournful of bards . It is ...
... bard of other times , May thy bold spirit visit these dull climes ! May the brave chieftains of thy rugged plains , Remember Ossian * and revere his strains ! 260 There was Ossian may be called the most mournful of bards . It is ...
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... bard , written by Dr. Currie , and prefixed to his elegant edition of his works , is a composition extremely pleasing , and possesses biographical merit of the very first order . * The lines which are quoted , with little variation ...
... bard , written by Dr. Currie , and prefixed to his elegant edition of his works , is a composition extremely pleasing , and possesses biographical merit of the very first order . * The lines which are quoted , with little variation ...
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... bard O kindle with thy fire ! And bid him pour the torrent of thy lyre , Unfold thy visions to his searching mind , Thy wreaths of laurel round his temples bind ! 390 THE POWERS OF GENIUS . PART II . Craig det 26 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
... bard O kindle with thy fire ! And bid him pour the torrent of thy lyre , Unfold thy visions to his searching mind , Thy wreaths of laurel round his temples bind ! 390 THE POWERS OF GENIUS . PART II . Craig det 26 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
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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