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 v
... characters and under dif- ferent circumstances . Somertile has unkennelled the hounds , mounted the steed , blown the horn of the huntsman , and led on the chase . Akenside has un- folded the pleasures of imagination . Armstrong has ...
... characters and under dif- ferent circumstances . Somertile has unkennelled the hounds , mounted the steed , blown the horn of the huntsman , and led on the chase . Akenside has un- folded the pleasures of imagination . Armstrong has ...
Page xii
... - rious causes . The author does not pretend to do justice to all those characters , who have been distinguished for their genius ; he has exercised his judgment in introducing only those whom he thought would xii THE DESIGN .
... - rious causes . The author does not pretend to do justice to all those characters , who have been distinguished for their genius ; he has exercised his judgment in introducing only those whom he thought would xii THE DESIGN .
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... character , and whilst , with a delicate and exquisite sagacity , it notes the graces , turns , manners , and expressions most likely to please , it perceives also all the defects which produce the contrary effect , and distinguishes ...
... character , and whilst , with a delicate and exquisite sagacity , it notes the graces , turns , manners , and expressions most likely to please , it perceives also all the defects which produce the contrary effect , and distinguishes ...
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... character of its author . His name was Don Alonzo d'Ercilla Y. Cuniga , he commanded some troops in Chili , where he waged war in a little mountain- ous country , called Auracauna , inhabited by a race of men more robust and ferocious ...
... character of its author . His name was Don Alonzo d'Ercilla Y. Cuniga , he commanded some troops in Chili , where he waged war in a little mountain- ous country , called Auracauna , inhabited by a race of men more robust and ferocious ...
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... characters of France and Italy ; after having con- versed with the most famous men of the age , with Grotius at Paris , with Gallileo in the prison of the Inquisition , he returned home to call into action his cultivated and emu- lating ...
... characters of France and Italy ; after having con- versed with the most famous men of the age , with Grotius at Paris , with Gallileo in the prison of the Inquisition , he returned home to call into action his cultivated and emu- lating ...
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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