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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... his profession . If literature and morals are not benefitted by this effort ; it will not be disgraceful to have failed in the design to pro- mote them . CONTENTS . POWERS of Genius , Appendix , containing illustrations THE DESIGN . XV.
... his profession . If literature and morals are not benefitted by this effort ; it will not be disgraceful to have failed in the design to pro- mote them . CONTENTS . POWERS of Genius , Appendix , containing illustrations THE DESIGN . XV.
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... containing illustrations of Genius . Midnight Hymn to Deity . Address to my Taper . Farewell Song of Ossian . Address to Hope . Picture of Morning . PAGE - Part I.- 1 - Part II . - 29 Part III . - 59 85 125 135 139 143 148 150 Epistle ...
... containing illustrations of Genius . Midnight Hymn to Deity . Address to my Taper . Farewell Song of Ossian . Address to Hope . Picture of Morning . PAGE - Part I.- 1 - Part II . - 29 Part III . - 59 85 125 135 139 143 148 150 Epistle ...
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... contains one beautiful remark ; which is , that taste is rendered more exquisite by genius and more correct by cultivation . A much more complete definition of taste than either of these , is given by Rollin . ( says he ) with reference ...
... contains one beautiful remark ; which is , that taste is rendered more exquisite by genius and more correct by cultivation . A much more complete definition of taste than either of these , is given by Rollin . ( says he ) with reference ...
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... contain , [ reign ; Who more than worlds , hold in their boundless Only an age can give a giant birth , Then more ... contains are accurate , but they are in- ferior to those of Burns in a glowing and exciting warmth . --- Cowper , in ...
... contain , [ reign ; Who more than worlds , hold in their boundless Only an age can give a giant birth , Then more ... contains are accurate , but they are in- ferior to those of Burns in a glowing and exciting warmth . --- Cowper , in ...
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... contains a system of ethics most pleasingly de- livered . His Lives of the Poets are more edifying and de- lightful , than the lives of all the military heroes ever writ- ten : You are there conducted to the closet of Genius , where you ...
... contains a system of ethics most pleasingly de- livered . His Lives of the Poets are more edifying and de- lightful , than the lives of all the military heroes ever writ- ten : You are there conducted to the closet of Genius , where you ...
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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 fame Fancy Fingal fire footsteps Gallileo give gloomy glory Greece head hear heart heaven Henry Fielding honours Hope idolatry 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 scene shades Shakespeare shew Sir William Jones sleep smile song sorrow soul spirit spread storm strain stream sublimity sword taste tears tempest terror thee thou thoughts thro throne thunder tion toil truth vale Vaucluse wandering waves wild winds wings writers youth
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Page 91 - stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than
Page 16 - And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. Bernardo... .Last night of all, When yon same star that's westward from the pole, Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus, and myself, The bell then beating one--- Marctllus... .Peace, break thee off,
Page 91 - Job xxviii. 20, 22, 23. Whence then cometh wisdom, and where is the place of understanding? 22, Destruction and Death say, we have heard the fame thereof with our ears. 23, God understandeth the way thereof, for he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven."—
Page 92 - out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. Sing unto God ye kingdoms of the Earth: O sing praises unto the Lord : To him that rideth upon the heaven of heavens which were of old;
Page 114 - In our little journey up to the grand chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining : not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes
Page 103 - to my foe; Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle; Under whose shade the ramping lion slept; Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from Winter's powerful wind.
Page 12 - care not Fortune what you me deny; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Thro* which Aurora
Page 102 - So to night-wand'ring sailors pale with fears, Wide o'er the watry waste a light appears, Which on the far-seen mountain blazing high, Streams from some lonely watch-tower to the sky : With mournful eyes they gaze and gaze again: Loud howls the storm and drives them o'er the main. Next his high head the helmet
Page 13 - the ear was mistress of their powers No Bard could please me but whose lyre was tun'd To nature's Praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigu'd me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus, assembling as he
Page 90 - Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the