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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... III . - 59 Address to my Taper . Farewell Song of Ossian . Address to Hope . Picture of Morning . · - 85 125 · 135 139 143 148 150 Epistle to a Friend , with the Poem on the Pow- ers of Genius Line 51 . del . Argument . Genius described .
... III . - 59 Address to my Taper . Farewell Song of Ossian . Address to Hope . Picture of Morning . · - 85 125 · 135 139 143 148 150 Epistle to a Friend , with the Poem on the Pow- ers of Genius Line 51 . del . Argument . Genius described .
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... morning beam , 119 Combines her pictures , gives to Hope her dream : Then Judgment 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 ...
... morning beam , 119 Combines her pictures , gives to Hope her dream : Then Judgment 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 ...
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... morning breasts the chilling air , And tends his flock the object of his care ; Views Nature's landscape with admiring eye , And looks with wonder on the evening sky ; He loves the grandeur of the gliding flood , The pensive silence of ...
... morning breasts the chilling air , And tends his flock the object of his care ; Views Nature's landscape with admiring eye , And looks with wonder on the evening sky ; He loves the grandeur of the gliding flood , The pensive silence of ...
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... morning dawn , he left his lowly shed , And , led in wonder , sought the mountain head , Where , hid in trees , and seated on the ground , He listen'd to the bell's far - distant sound . His thoughtful mind unlettered , would explore ...
... morning dawn , he left his lowly shed , And , led in wonder , sought the mountain head , Where , hid in trees , and seated on the ground , He listen'd to the bell's far - distant sound . His thoughtful mind unlettered , would explore ...
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... morning of Literature . Early in life he received the pa- tronage of the noble family of Colonna , under whose shelter he was enabled to prosecute his studies , and to obtain stores of information unequalled in that day . His romantic ...
... morning of Literature . Early in life he received the pa- tronage of the noble family of Colonna , under whose shelter he was enabled to prosecute his studies , and to obtain stores of information unequalled in that day . His romantic ...
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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