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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... 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 soars And untried regions of the ...
... 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 soars And untried regions of the ...
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... scene appears Which long lay buried in the depth of years ; The active principle on her relies , On her foundation bids the building rise . Judgment with these and Sympathy refin'd Guide and improve the genius of the mind . 40 * It is ...
... scene appears Which long lay buried in the depth of years ; The active principle on her relies , On her foundation bids the building rise . Judgment with these and Sympathy refin'd Guide and improve the genius of the mind . 40 * It is ...
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... scene her momentary sight , Sips like the bee , and wantons in delight . --- The wandering memory thro ' the fields of lore With thoughts and images augments her store : Then Fancy fluttering in the morning beam , 119 Combines her ...
... scene her momentary sight , Sips like the bee , and wantons in delight . --- The wandering memory thro ' the fields of lore With thoughts and images augments her store : Then Fancy fluttering in the morning beam , 119 Combines her ...
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... scenes , -- through the Seasons of Thomson and the Task of Cowper : He adopts the language of the bard of the Castle of Indolence . I care not Fortune what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace , You cannot shut the ...
... scenes , -- through the Seasons of Thomson and the Task of Cowper : He adopts the language of the bard of the Castle of Indolence . I care not Fortune what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace , You cannot shut the ...
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... scenes of nature have upon the feeling bosom . The de- scriptions which it contains are accurate , but they are in- ferior to those of Burns in a glowing and exciting warmth . --Cowper , in the fourth book of his Task , beautifully de ...
... scenes of nature have upon the feeling bosom . The de- scriptions which it contains are accurate , but they are in- ferior to those of Burns in a glowing and exciting warmth . --Cowper , in the fourth book of his Task , beautifully de ...
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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