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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... elegant , sublime , or beautiful , in art or nature , is called Taste . " This definition of Beattie has left unmentioned those mental powers united and operating with imagination ; it has also confined taste to the discernment of what ...
... elegant , sublime , or beautiful , in art or nature , is called Taste . " This definition of Beattie has left unmentioned those mental powers united and operating with imagination ; it has also confined taste to the discernment of what ...
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... elegant edition of his works , is a composition extremely pleasing , and possesses biographical merit of the very first order . * The lines which are quoted , with little variation , are taken from Burns . Course of Genius . With ...
... elegant edition of his works , is a composition extremely pleasing , and possesses biographical merit of the very first order . * The lines which are quoted , with little variation , are taken from Burns . Course of Genius . With ...
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... his personal elegance and attractiveness of manners . He wrote , and spoke flu- ently many languages , and merely considered as a Linguist Grandeur necessary to Invention . The eastern worlds to him 34 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
... his personal elegance and attractiveness of manners . He wrote , and spoke flu- ently many languages , and merely considered as a Linguist Grandeur necessary to Invention . The eastern worlds to him 34 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
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... elegance adorn his style , And flows his Muse more fruitful than the Nile . 90 In his sweet song Arcadia blooms again , Breathes its perfumes and waves its yellow grain . Subjects of grandeur , beautiful or new Invention loves , on ...
... elegance adorn his style , And flows his Muse more fruitful than the Nile . 90 In his sweet song Arcadia blooms again , Breathes its perfumes and waves its yellow grain . Subjects of grandeur , beautiful or new Invention loves , on ...
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... elegant instructions convey- ed in the TASK . Cowper was a writer , original in his thoughts , and undaunted in his delivery of truth . His re- presentations are commonly striking : I need only instance his picture of Omai --- the ...
... elegant instructions convey- ed in the TASK . Cowper was a writer , original in his thoughts , and undaunted in his delivery of truth . His re- presentations are commonly striking : I need only instance his picture of Omai --- the ...
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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