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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... lyre was tun'd To nature's Praises . Heroes and their feats Fatigu'd me , never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus , assembling as he sung , The rustic throng beneath his favourite beech . Then Milton had indeed a poet's charms : New to my ...
... lyre was tun'd To nature's Praises . Heroes and their feats Fatigu'd me , never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus , assembling as he sung , The rustic throng beneath his favourite beech . Then Milton had indeed a poet's charms : New to my ...
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... lyre , And look through Nature , with creative fire ! 291 of the Earl of Glencairn --- his Vision --- and the Petition of Bruar Water , will be lasting monuments of his talents . The history of this bard , written by Dr. Currie , and ...
... lyre , And look through Nature , with creative fire ! 291 of the Earl of Glencairn --- his Vision --- and the Petition of Bruar Water , will be lasting monuments of his talents . The history of this bard , written by Dr. Currie , and ...
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... bard O kindle with thy fire ! And bid him pour the torrent of thy lyre , Unfold thy visions to his searching mind , Thy wreaths of laurel round his temples bind ! 390 THE POWERS OF GENIUS . PART II . Craig det 26 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
... bard O kindle with thy fire ! And bid him pour the torrent of thy lyre , Unfold thy visions to his searching mind , Thy wreaths of laurel round his temples bind ! 390 THE POWERS OF GENIUS . PART II . Craig det 26 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
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... lyre The world must honour , Genius must admire . When he in oriental numbers sings Invention wafts him on her boldest wings . On Jones's birth the Arts and Graces smil'd , And Genius mark'd him for her darling child . 80 are fine ...
... lyre The world must honour , Genius must admire . When he in oriental numbers sings Invention wafts him on her boldest wings . On Jones's birth the Arts and Graces smil'd , And Genius mark'd him for her darling child . 80 are fine ...
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... lyre Yet oft she scourges with an honest ire , The crimes , the follies of an impious age , The warbling nonsense of some hot - press'd page . Tho ' Genius mostly loves some daring theme , Yet she can warble with the tinkling stream ...
... lyre Yet oft she scourges with an honest ire , The crimes , the follies of an impious age , The warbling nonsense of some hot - press'd page . Tho ' Genius mostly loves some daring theme , Yet she can warble with the tinkling stream ...
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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