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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... slumbering , we are led astray And follow Fiction in her pathless way ; We love to listen to some dreadful tale Which Mystery darkens with her magic veil . Ᏼ Ꮞ Progress of Genius . We love to hear of ruins THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 7 PAGE.
... slumbering , we are led astray And follow Fiction in her pathless way ; We love to listen to some dreadful tale Which Mystery darkens with her magic veil . Ᏼ Ꮞ Progress of Genius . We love to hear of ruins THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 7 PAGE.
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... hear of ruins and of halls Thro ' which some dead - man's voice with shudder- ing accents calls . When years revolving riper knowledge bring And prune the wildness of young Fancy's wing , Then Nature rises in true colours dress'd , We ...
... hear of ruins and of halls Thro ' which some dead - man's voice with shudder- ing accents calls . When years revolving riper knowledge bring And prune the wildness of young Fancy's wing , Then Nature rises in true colours dress'd , We ...
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... hear , while stretch'd on lowly bed , The storm beat loudly on his little shed ; Delighted views the golden sun of morn And hears the hunter wind his early horn ; The voice of music meets his willing ear , The tale of sorrow ever claims ...
... hear , while stretch'd on lowly bed , The storm beat loudly on his little shed ; Delighted views the golden sun of morn And hears the hunter wind his early horn ; The voice of music meets his willing ear , The tale of sorrow ever claims ...
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... hears the poet raise his song . * 189 * That mind possesses the seeds of taste , and frequently of immitative genius , which is powerfully impressed by the diversified appearances of nature : which is soothed , de- lighted , and aroused ...
... hears the poet raise his song . * 189 * That mind possesses the seeds of taste , and frequently of immitative genius , which is powerfully impressed by the diversified appearances of nature : which is soothed , de- lighted , and aroused ...
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... hear some footstep dread , Which beats the earth with hollow sounding tread ; Hark ! from the tomb a voice of terror breaks , The air breathes cold , the ground beneath me shakes , A ghost appears , the moon withdraws her beams , And ...
... hear some footstep dread , Which beats the earth with hollow sounding tread ; Hark ! from the tomb a voice of terror breaks , The air breathes cold , the ground beneath me shakes , A ghost appears , the moon withdraws her beams , And ...
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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