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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... terror and of love ; She gives the wings on which Invention soars And untried regions of the world explores . With ease she varies her enchanting forms , Now roves thro ' peaceful meads , now flies with storms : Now her fair fingers ...
... terror and of love ; She gives the wings on which Invention soars And untried regions of the world explores . With ease she varies her enchanting forms , Now roves thro ' peaceful meads , now flies with storms : Now her fair fingers ...
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... terror breaks , The air breathes cold , the ground beneath me shakes , A ghost appears , the moon withdraws her beams , And all the thickets sound with frightful screams ; The critic's voice is now as hush'd as death , His eyes are fix ...
... terror breaks , The air breathes cold , the ground beneath me shakes , A ghost appears , the moon withdraws her beams , And all the thickets sound with frightful screams ; The critic's voice is now as hush'd as death , His eyes are fix ...
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... terror throw their mantle round , And every power lies still in awe profound . Where Auracauna nurs'd her warlike race , Wild as the tempest , fleeting in the chace , Ercilla pour'd his bold and wandering strain , The pride of Genius ...
... terror throw their mantle round , And every power lies still in awe profound . Where Auracauna nurs'd her warlike race , Wild as the tempest , fleeting in the chace , Ercilla pour'd his bold and wandering strain , The pride of Genius ...
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... terror , like the god of arms ; But when Angelica's soft charms he sings , An angel's pinions sweep his trembling strings . 270 Untaught by science , not refin'd by art , His sole instructors Nature and the heart ; See lowly Burns ...
... terror , like the god of arms ; But when Angelica's soft charms he sings , An angel's pinions sweep his trembling strings . 270 Untaught by science , not refin'd by art , His sole instructors Nature and the heart ; See lowly Burns ...
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... Terror and of Night ! O'er wilds , o'er mountains , her high course extends , Thro ' darken'd woods , and thro ' banditties ' dens ! At length she lights within some ruin'd tower , While , from the turret , tolls the midnight hour ! A ...
... Terror and of Night ! O'er wilds , o'er mountains , her high course extends , Thro ' darken'd woods , and thro ' banditties ' dens ! At length she lights within some ruin'd tower , While , from the turret , tolls the midnight hour ! A ...
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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