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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... mountain head : It flies through scenes unvisited before , " Exhausts this world , and then imagines ” more . Allied with Genius , see bright Fancy move The queen alike of terror and of love ; She gives the wings on which Invention ...
... mountain head : It flies through scenes unvisited before , " Exhausts this world , and then imagines ” more . Allied with Genius , see bright Fancy move The queen alike of terror and of love ; She gives the wings on which Invention ...
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... mountain , the rivulet , and the ocean ; which listens with correspondent emotions to the whisper of the breeze , and to the howling of the midnight storm . The sense of beauty and of grandeur is peculiar to man . The herd in common ...
... mountain , the rivulet , and the ocean ; which listens with correspondent emotions to the whisper of the breeze , and to the howling of the midnight storm . The sense of beauty and of grandeur is peculiar to man . The herd in common ...
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... mountain- ous country , called Auracauna , inhabited by a race of men more robust and ferocious than all the other American na- tions . In this war he underwent extreme dangers , and performed the most astonishing actions : This ...
... mountain- ous country , called Auracauna , inhabited by a race of men more robust and ferocious than all the other American na- tions . In this war he underwent extreme dangers , and performed the most astonishing actions : This ...
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... mountainous desert , covered with dark heath . There he wandered through narrow vallies , thinly inhabited and bounded by precipices , which by the light of the moon presented a landscape the most grotesque Ariosto . See Ariosto * take ...
... mountainous desert , covered with dark heath . There he wandered through narrow vallies , thinly inhabited and bounded by precipices , which by the light of the moon presented a landscape the most grotesque Ariosto . See Ariosto * take ...
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... -- his Address to a Mountain Daisy -- his Lament of Mary Queen of Scots -- his Lament on a Friend's Unfortunate Amour --- his Lament on the Death Beauties of Nature . 280 Or see him seek the 20 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
... -- his Address to a Mountain Daisy -- his Lament of Mary Queen of Scots -- his Lament on a Friend's Unfortunate Amour --- his Lament on the Death Beauties of Nature . 280 Or see him seek the 20 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
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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