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 v
... eagerness , and rashness of youth , to invoke the same muse who has rewarded their toils , and to direct my course amidst regions hitherto un- explored . - May I hope to be heard ? THE DESIGN . GENIUS is the highest power of the PREFACE .
... eagerness , and rashness of youth , to invoke the same muse who has rewarded their toils , and to direct my course amidst regions hitherto un- explored . - May I hope to be heard ? THE DESIGN . GENIUS is the highest power of the PREFACE .
Page xi
... youth , delight our old age , adorn prosperity , supply a refuge in adversity , are a constant source of pleasure at home , are no impediment while abroad , attend us in the season of the night , and accompany THE DESIGN . xi.
... youth , delight our old age , adorn prosperity , supply a refuge in adversity , are a constant source of pleasure at home , are no impediment while abroad , attend us in the season of the night , and accompany THE DESIGN . xi.
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... youth appears ; Youth sometimes burns with all the poet's rage , And speaks the glory of a riper age . * 50 * Cowley , Dryden , and Chatterton , wrote several admired poems at a very early age . Milton wrote his paraphrases of the CXIV ...
... youth appears ; Youth sometimes burns with all the poet's rage , And speaks the glory of a riper age . * 50 * Cowley , Dryden , and Chatterton , wrote several admired poems at a very early age . Milton wrote his paraphrases of the CXIV ...
Page 7
... youth and manhood spring . When first our frame the strength of youth And novelty on every object blooms ; [ assumes , When knowledge first unrolls her endless page , Rich with the records of preceding age , The curious mind then roves ...
... youth and manhood spring . When first our frame the strength of youth And novelty on every object blooms ; [ assumes , When knowledge first unrolls her endless page , Rich with the records of preceding age , The curious mind then roves ...
Page 8
... youth . Then Judgment , Reason hold their steadfast reign , Nor feel the tangles of Delusion's chain . Enchantment then no longer holds its sway And Fancy's fairy landscape fades away . Then toils the mind with firm unshaken pace , And ...
... youth . Then Judgment , Reason hold their steadfast reign , Nor feel the tangles of Delusion's chain . Enchantment then no longer holds its sway And Fancy's fairy landscape fades away . Then toils the mind with firm unshaken pace , And ...
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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