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 viii
... head in the tempest , also produces weeds and sickly flow- ers . The slightest impulse is at times sufficient to rouse the full strength of genius . A spark com- municated excites the most terrible explosion . The greatest river ...
... head in the tempest , also produces weeds and sickly flow- ers . The slightest impulse is at times sufficient to rouse the full strength of genius . A spark com- municated excites the most terrible explosion . The greatest river ...
Page 2
... head : It flies through scenes unvisited before , " Exhausts this world , and then imagines ” more . Allied with Genius , see bright Fancy move The queen alike of terror and of love ; She gives the wings on which Invention soars And ...
... head : It flies through scenes unvisited before , " Exhausts this world , and then imagines ” more . Allied with Genius , see bright Fancy move The queen alike of terror and of love ; She gives the wings on which Invention soars And ...
Page 16
... head ; When Ariel sings and moves amid the air , When Banquo rises to the vacant chair ; 230 When Hamlet's ghost , the bell then beating one , * Stalks pale and sullen by his warlike son . Then gloom and terror throw their mantle round ...
... head ; When Ariel sings and moves amid the air , When Banquo rises to the vacant chair ; 230 When Hamlet's ghost , the bell then beating one , * Stalks pale and sullen by his warlike son . Then gloom and terror throw their mantle round ...
Page 31
... head , Where , hid in trees , and seated on the ground , He listen'd to the bell's far - distant sound . His thoughtful mind unlettered , would explore And muse in sadness that he knew no more ; At length an hermit , to his longing eyes ...
... head , Where , hid in trees , and seated on the ground , He listen'd to the bell's far - distant sound . His thoughtful mind unlettered , would explore And muse in sadness that he knew no more ; At length an hermit , to his longing eyes ...
Page 32
... head . Rous'd by the wonders of the classic page , He gave to study all his early age ; In thirst of knowledge and his favourite lore He sought instruction on a foreign.shore , Courted the Muses in Italian plains 60 Where his lov'd ...
... head . Rous'd by the wonders of the classic page , He gave to study all his early age ; In thirst of knowledge and his favourite lore He sought instruction on a foreign.shore , Courted the Muses in Italian plains 60 Where his lov'd ...
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