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 xii
... taste . The one explores the labyrinths of intricacy ; the other wanders through the mazes of delight . The characteris- tic of the one is penetration ; but that of the other is brightness . In the following poem no such distinction is ...
... taste . The one explores the labyrinths of intricacy ; the other wanders through the mazes of delight . The characteris- tic of the one is penetration ; but that of the other is brightness . In the following poem no such distinction is ...
Page xvii
... Taste and Genius distinguished . Thakspeare's effect , and his neglect of Rules . Monzo d'Eroilla . Genius produced without cultivation . Os- sian , Ariosto . Burns . The influence of Climate and the face of Nature on the Mind ...
... Taste and Genius distinguished . Thakspeare's effect , and his neglect of Rules . Monzo d'Eroilla . Genius produced without cultivation . Os- sian , Ariosto . Burns . The influence of Climate and the face of Nature on the Mind ...
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... taste be found in early years , Yet blooming genius oft in 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 ...
... taste be found in early years , Yet blooming genius oft in 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 ...
Page 8
... the bending frame Destroys our vigour and our thirst for fame ; To mental toil , then weariness succeeds , Remembrance looks upon our former deeds , 130 140 Taste . Then no new conquests kindle our desires But S THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
... the bending frame Destroys our vigour and our thirst for fame ; To mental toil , then weariness succeeds , Remembrance looks upon our former deeds , 130 140 Taste . Then no new conquests kindle our desires But S THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
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... taste in a clearer view than we can by the measures of poetry , if we select from some approved au- thors , the most satisfactory definitions of taste . " Imagi nation united with some other mental powers , and operating as a precipient ...
... taste in a clearer view than we can by the measures of poetry , if we select from some approved au- thors , the most satisfactory definitions of taste . " Imagi nation united with some other mental powers , and operating as a precipient ...
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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