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 ix
... discover that great stores of ma- terials have been collected by his fancy , and sub- jected to his judgment . He darts with rapidity over the fields of his investigation ; and by this rapidity his ardour becomes more inflamed . " The ...
... discover that great stores of ma- terials have been collected by his fancy , and sub- jected to his judgment . He darts with rapidity over the fields of his investigation ; and by this rapidity his ardour becomes more inflamed . " The ...
Page 13
... discovers the powerful influence which the scenes of nature have upon the feeling bosom . The de- scriptions which it contains are accurate , but they are in- ferior to those of Burns in a glowing and exciting warmth . --Cowper , in the ...
... discovers the powerful influence which the scenes of nature have upon the feeling bosom . The de- scriptions which it contains are accurate , but they are in- ferior to those of Burns in a glowing and exciting warmth . --Cowper , in the ...
Page 35
... discover nice and accurate critical discernment . His translation of the Speeches of Isæus , throws light upon the practice of the ancient law . As a poet his merit is un- questionably great . His diction is nervous , and his imagery ...
... discover nice and accurate critical discernment . His translation of the Speeches of Isæus , throws light upon the practice of the ancient law . As a poet his merit is un- questionably great . His diction is nervous , and his imagery ...
Page 41
... discovers , in numerous passages , that he was capable of the utmost harmony . Cowper's satires , particularly his Table Talk , and Progress of Error , are among the most chaste and dig- nified compositions of that class , in the ...
... discovers , in numerous passages , that he was capable of the utmost harmony . Cowper's satires , particularly his Table Talk , and Progress of Error , are among the most chaste and dig- nified compositions of that class , in the ...
Page 44
... discover sensibility , ta- lents of description and invention . This writer is justly an universal favourite . In her manner of novel - writing she is unrivalled . The three no- vels which she has written , have each peculiar merits ...
... discover sensibility , ta- lents of description and invention . This writer is justly an universal favourite . In her manner of novel - writing she is unrivalled . The three no- vels which she has written , have each peculiar merits ...
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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