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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... beam , And sits , in silence , by the falling stream . Research can scarcely modify and range The various forms and times of mental change ; Beneath fond Nature's care our bodies grow , And bear the bounty which her hands bestow . But ...
... beam , And sits , in silence , by the falling stream . Research can scarcely modify and range The various forms and times of mental change ; Beneath fond Nature's care our bodies grow , And bear the bounty which her hands bestow . But ...
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... beam , 119 Combines her pictures , gives to Hope her dream : Then Judgment slumbering , we are led astray And follow Fiction in her pathless way ; We love to listen to some dreadful tale Which Mystery darkens with her magic veil . Ᏼ Ꮞ ...
... beam , 119 Combines her pictures , gives to Hope her dream : Then Judgment slumbering , we are led astray And follow Fiction in her pathless way ; We love to listen to some dreadful tale Which Mystery darkens with her magic veil . Ᏼ Ꮞ ...
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... 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 hour , And o'er the soul extends ...
... 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 hour , And o'er the soul extends ...
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... beam ; Alone he sits upon the distant hill , Beneath him falls a melancholy rill ; His harp lies by him on the rustling grass , The deer before him thro ' the thickets pass ; No hunter winds his slow and sullen horn , No whistling cow ...
... beam ; Alone he sits upon the distant hill , Beneath him falls a melancholy rill ; His harp lies by him on the rustling grass , The deer before him thro ' the thickets pass ; No hunter winds his slow and sullen horn , No whistling cow ...
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... beam , " The sweeping theatre of hanging woods , " Th ' incessant roar of headlong - tumbling floods . " See him arouse his heaven - instructed lyre , And look through Nature , with creative fire ! 291 of the Earl of Glencairn --- his ...
... beam , " The sweeping theatre of hanging woods , " Th ' incessant roar of headlong - tumbling floods . " See him arouse his heaven - instructed lyre , And look through Nature , with creative fire ! 291 of the Earl of Glencairn --- his ...
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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