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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... Virtue needs no such advocate as Ridicule to plead her cause ; yet there are many vices and follies which are the proper subjects of its severity and scourging : There are productions of false perverted taste , which more deserve the ...
... Virtue needs no such advocate as Ridicule to plead her cause ; yet there are many vices and follies which are the proper subjects of its severity and scourging : There are productions of false perverted taste , which more deserve the ...
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... virtues and accomplishments , in an exquisite elegy , which bears her name , and which has been admirably translated by Sir William Jones . From the account of biographers she was one of the most beautiful , accomplished , and virtuous ...
... virtues and accomplishments , in an exquisite elegy , which bears her name , and which has been admirably translated by Sir William Jones . From the account of biographers she was one of the most beautiful , accomplished , and virtuous ...
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... virtue strong ; sion , and the gloom of melancholy , dictated his Elegy in a Country Church - Yard . He has himself acknowledged , in a letter to his friend , that an aged Welchman , playing on his harp , excited him to complete his ode ...
... virtue strong ; sion , and the gloom of melancholy , dictated his Elegy in a Country Church - Yard . He has himself acknowledged , in a letter to his friend , that an aged Welchman , playing on his harp , excited him to complete his ode ...
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... Virtue weep o'er mild Clarissa's woes , And virtue smile on Grandison's repose . 160 * Richardson was an author of uncommon merit ; his knowledge of nature was extensive ; his characters are drawn with a masterly hand ; his delineations ...
... Virtue weep o'er mild Clarissa's woes , And virtue smile on Grandison's repose . 160 * Richardson was an author of uncommon merit ; his knowledge of nature was extensive ; his characters are drawn with a masterly hand ; his delineations ...
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... virtue bade her realms obey . Her mind unshaken all the world admire , And Pity , weeping , sees the queen expire . ---- Hapless in love , in Sorrow's moving strain , Hear Sappho mourn her unrequited pain . ---- Cold - hearted youth ...
... virtue bade her realms obey . Her mind unshaken all the world admire , And Pity , weeping , sees the queen expire . ---- Hapless in love , in Sorrow's moving strain , Hear Sappho mourn her unrequited pain . ---- Cold - hearted youth ...
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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