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 16
... bold and wandering strain , The pride of Genius and the boast of Spain . When rest succeeded to the toils of war , And in the sky appear'd the evening star , * Horatio .... Well , sit we down , And let us hear Bernardo speak of this ...
... bold and wandering strain , The pride of Genius and the boast of Spain . When rest succeeded to the toils of war , And in the sky appear'd the evening star , * Horatio .... Well , sit we down , And let us hear Bernardo speak of this ...
Page 18
... 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 impossible to read his poems without ...
... 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 impossible to read his poems without ...
Page 36
... bold hand strikes the hoarse thundering Yet not the nightingale more sweetly sings . [ strings , Hush ! every sound ---- let not a zephyr move ; O , let me listen to those notes of love ! For tender Virgil † breathes his softest strain ...
... bold hand strikes the hoarse thundering Yet not the nightingale more sweetly sings . [ strings , Hush ! every sound ---- let not a zephyr move ; O , let me listen to those notes of love ! For tender Virgil † breathes his softest strain ...
Page 41
... bold and moral song , Arm'd with sweet tenderness , in virtue strong ; sion , and the gloom of melancholy , dictated his Elegy in a Country Church - Yard . He has himself acknowledged , in a letter to his friend , that an aged Welchman ...
... bold and moral song , Arm'd with sweet tenderness , in virtue strong ; sion , and the gloom of melancholy , dictated his Elegy in a Country Church - Yard . He has himself acknowledged , in a letter to his friend , that an aged Welchman ...
Page 47
... bold Corinna * strike her lyric string , And bear young 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 ...
... bold Corinna * strike her lyric string , And bear young 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 ...
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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