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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... eyes With equal pleasure , with the same surprise . The same excitements chill our soul with fear , The same afflictions draw the melting tear ; 81 91 Its Progress . The same gay prospects kindle warm desire 6 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
... eyes With equal pleasure , with the same surprise . The same excitements chill our soul with fear , The same afflictions draw the melting tear ; 81 91 Its Progress . The same gay prospects kindle warm desire 6 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
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... tear . These warm impressions 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 ...
... tear . These warm impressions 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 ...
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... tears ! tachment for Laura , who was the wife of the young Hughes de Sades , is well known . He first saw this lady , at the time of matins , in the monastery of St. Claire . He was in- stantly struck with her face , her air , her ...
... tears ! tachment for Laura , who was the wife of the young Hughes de Sades , is well known . He first saw this lady , at the time of matins , in the monastery of St. Claire . He was in- stantly struck with her face , her air , her ...
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... tears ! And mad Oppression startles while he hears ! When Fiction lifts her mirror to the eye , And mimic lightnings from the surface fly ---- When , by the magic of her winning charms , She draws her captives to her downy arms , She ...
... tears ! And mad Oppression startles while he hears ! When Fiction lifts her mirror to the eye , And mimic lightnings from the surface fly ---- When , by the magic of her winning charms , She draws her captives to her downy arms , She ...
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... tears ; Joy strikes the viol ---- strains of rapture rise , The minstrel falls --- the voice of music dies . Ah ! why to pleasure should such pangs succeed , Why wast thou , Mary , † doom'd so soon to bleed ? * It is said that Corinna ...
... tears ; Joy strikes the viol ---- strains of rapture rise , The minstrel falls --- the voice of music dies . Ah ! why to pleasure should such pangs succeed , Why wast thou , Mary , † doom'd so soon to bleed ? * It is said that Corinna ...
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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