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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Page 3
... shades she walks , Pours sweetest numbers and with Genii talks . --- The memory notes transactions as they roll , And calls past images before the soul . Forth at her magic call the scene appears Which long lay buried in the depth of ...
... shades she walks , Pours sweetest numbers and with Genii talks . --- The memory notes transactions as they roll , And calls past images before the soul . Forth at her magic call the scene appears Which long lay buried in the depth of ...
Page 12
... shade of the tree ; they receive their nourishment from the pasture and the stream ; but man only perceives the images of beauty and sublimity in the skies and in the objects which surround him . The pastoral is generally the most ...
... shade of the tree ; they receive their nourishment from the pasture and the stream ; but man only perceives the images of beauty and sublimity in the skies and in the objects which surround him . The pastoral is generally the most ...
Page 17
... shade , Where never ploughshare cut the barren glade . 240 * About the end of the sixteenth century , the poem here alluded to was produced in Spain . It is celebrated for peculiar beauties , for the singularity of the subject , and is ...
... shade , Where never ploughshare cut the barren glade . 240 * About the end of the sixteenth century , the poem here alluded to was produced in Spain . It is celebrated for peculiar beauties , for the singularity of the subject , and is ...
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... shade , Where Culture's footsteps never press'd the glade , Incessant cold chills her impetuous course And melting suns destroy her active force . In endless solitude her powers decay Imagination sickens , dies away : To social life Man ...
... shade , Where Culture's footsteps never press'd the glade , Incessant cold chills her impetuous course And melting suns destroy her active force . In endless solitude her powers decay Imagination sickens , dies away : To social life Man ...
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... shade the wildly - sloping hill : There roves the swain , all - gentle and serene , And guards his sheep while browsing on the green . He leads the dance by Cynthia's silver light And lulls with sport the dusky ear of Night ; Breathes ...
... shade the wildly - sloping hill : There roves the swain , all - gentle and serene , And guards his sheep while browsing on the green . He leads the dance by Cynthia's silver light And lulls with sport the dusky ear of Night ; Breathes ...
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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