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 6
... gloomy cell . Different in man we see the growth of mind , Onward moves Genius , Dullness stays behind . External causes lead to different ways , When passion prompts the ready mind obeys . Some on the wings of wavering Fancy fly While ...
... gloomy cell . Different in man we see the growth of mind , Onward moves Genius , Dullness stays behind . External causes lead to different ways , When passion prompts the ready mind obeys . Some on the wings of wavering Fancy fly While ...
Page 18
... gloomy enthusiasm . presented to his view , a wild , picturesque , and melancholy country , long tracts of mountainous desert , covered with dark heath . There he wandered through narrow vallies , thinly inhabited and bounded by ...
... gloomy enthusiasm . presented to his view , a wild , picturesque , and melancholy country , long tracts of mountainous desert , covered with dark heath . There he wandered through narrow vallies , thinly inhabited and bounded by ...
Page 33
... invention : It is too gloomy gene- rally to please , but its lessons should be imprinted upon every heart . His London , and Vanity of Human Wishes , D Sir William Jones . Genius with Science and with Judgment THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 33.
... invention : It is too gloomy gene- rally to please , but its lessons should be imprinted upon every heart . His London , and Vanity of Human Wishes , D Sir William Jones . Genius with Science and with Judgment THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 33.
Page 66
... gloomy silence his dark eye - balls roll ; At dead of night he wanders o'er the vale , And bares his bosom to the chilling gale ; Among the rocks he leans , to hear the roar Of billows chafing on the sounding shore . Each sound which ...
... gloomy silence his dark eye - balls roll ; At dead of night he wanders o'er the vale , And bares his bosom to the chilling gale ; Among the rocks he leans , to hear the roar Of billows chafing on the sounding shore . Each sound which ...
Page 70
... gloomy song : What time the moon threw her ascending beam O'er Night's dark bosom and the wizard stream ; I heard this strain -- ( it now no longer flows Peace to the ashes of a man of woes ! ) Here on this beaten rock , O let me rest ...
... gloomy song : What time the moon threw her ascending beam O'er Night's dark bosom and the wizard stream ; I heard this strain -- ( it now no longer flows Peace to the ashes of a man of woes ! ) Here on this beaten rock , O let me rest ...
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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