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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... breast . Though erring taste be found in early years , Yet blooming genius oft in youth appears ; Youth sometimes burns with all the poet's rage , And speaks the glory of a riper age . * 50 * Cowley , Dryden , and Chatterton , wrote ...
... breast . Though erring taste be found in early years , Yet blooming genius oft in youth appears ; Youth sometimes burns with all the poet's rage , And speaks the glory of a riper age . * 50 * Cowley , Dryden , and Chatterton , wrote ...
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... breast . Then cold , disgusted at fair Falshood's charms , We throw the wanton from our vigorous arms ; Press to our hearts the lovely form of Truth Cloth'd in the beauty of immortal youth . Then Judgment , Reason hold their steadfast ...
... breast . Then cold , disgusted at fair Falshood's charms , We throw the wanton from our vigorous arms ; Press to our hearts the lovely form of Truth Cloth'd in the beauty of immortal youth . Then Judgment , Reason hold their steadfast ...
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... breasts are sown , But few can mighty Genius call their own . 170 of what is elegant , sublime , or beautiful , in art or nature , is called Taste . " This definition of Beattie has left unmentioned those mental powers united and ...
... breasts are sown , But few can mighty Genius call their own . 170 of what is elegant , sublime , or beautiful , in art or nature , is called Taste . " This definition of Beattie has left unmentioned those mental powers united and ...
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... breasts the chilling air , And tends his flock the object of his care ; Views Nature's landscape with admiring eye , And looks with wonder on the evening sky ; He loves the grandeur of the gliding flood , The pensive silence of the deep ...
... breasts the chilling air , And tends his flock the object of his care ; Views Nature's landscape with admiring eye , And looks with wonder on the evening sky ; He loves the grandeur of the gliding flood , The pensive silence of the deep ...
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... breast the air , Follow the chamois on the pointed rock , 320 And clamber heights to seek their bearded flock . Loud from the Baltic sounds the dreadful storm And gathering hosts the face of day deform : Beneath their rage the soft ...
... breast the air , Follow the chamois on the pointed rock , 320 And clamber heights to seek their bearded flock . Loud from the Baltic sounds the dreadful storm And gathering hosts the face of day deform : Beneath their rage the soft ...
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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