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 11
... speak uncultur'd Taste , Which lives with rustics in the dreary waste ; Which spreads o'er Nature an enrapturing smile , And smooths for man the rugged brow of Toil . 180 which it is more easy to conceive than define , is less the ...
... speak uncultur'd Taste , Which lives with rustics in the dreary waste ; Which spreads o'er Nature an enrapturing smile , And smooths for man the rugged brow of Toil . 180 which it is more easy to conceive than define , is less the ...
Page 13
... my taste his Paradise surpass'd The struggling efforts of my boyish tongue To speak its excellence . * If we examine the greatest works of genius that have Its Impetuosity . No bands can hold her when she THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 13.
... my taste his Paradise surpass'd The struggling efforts of my boyish tongue To speak its excellence . * If we examine the greatest works of genius that have Its Impetuosity . No bands can hold her when she THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 13.
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... speak of this . Bernardo .... Last night of all , When yon same star that's westward from the pole , Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns , Marcellus , and myself , The bell then beating one --- Marcellus ...
... speak of this . Bernardo .... Last night of all , When yon same star that's westward from the pole , Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns , Marcellus , and myself , The bell then beating one --- Marcellus ...
Page 37
... under whose shelter he was enabled to prosecute his studies , and to obtain stores of information unequalled in that day . His romantic at- Petrarch . O speak those charms which Petrarch's Laura wears D 3 THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 37.
... under whose shelter he was enabled to prosecute his studies , and to obtain stores of information unequalled in that day . His romantic at- Petrarch . O speak those charms which Petrarch's Laura wears D 3 THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 37.
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A Poem, in Three Parts John Blair Linn. Petrarch . O speak those charms which Petrarch's Laura wears ! O breathe that passion which he mourn'd in tears ! tachment for Laura , who was the wife of the young Hughes de Sades , is well known ...
A Poem, in Three Parts John Blair Linn. Petrarch . O speak those charms which Petrarch's Laura wears ! O breathe that passion which he mourn'd in tears ! tachment for Laura , who was the wife of the young Hughes de Sades , is well known ...
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