The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three PartsJohn Conrad & Company, 1802 - 191 էջ |
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... writers who have excelled in its different departments . Analytical writers have divided genius into two kinds . The one belongs to the sciences ; the other to the arts . The one is employed in the discovery of truth ; the other in the ...
... writers who have excelled in its different departments . Analytical writers have divided genius into two kinds . The one belongs to the sciences ; the other to the arts . The one is employed in the discovery of truth ; the other in the ...
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... writers , require a train of reasoning before we can observe the basis on which they are founded . It may , however , tend to place taste in a clearer view than we can by the measures of poetry , if we select from some approved au ...
... writers , require a train of reasoning before we can observe the basis on which they are founded . It may , however , tend to place taste in a clearer view than we can by the measures of poetry , if we select from some approved au ...
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... writer of Fitzosborne's letters ) is nothing more than an universal sense of beauty rendered more exquisite by genius and more correct by cultivation . " This definition , though not equal to the former , contains one beautiful remark ...
... writer of Fitzosborne's letters ) is nothing more than an universal sense of beauty rendered more exquisite by genius and more correct by cultivation . " This definition , though not equal to the former , contains one beautiful remark ...
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... writers of Greece and of Rome . His soul was kindled by no borrowed fire . He was visited by no beams but those of the sun of Nature . In the smaller accomplishments of the poet , he is often- times deficient ; but the richness of his ...
... writers of Greece and of Rome . His soul was kindled by no borrowed fire . He was visited by no beams but those of the sun of Nature . In the smaller accomplishments of the poet , he is often- times deficient ; but the richness of his ...
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... writer would answer better to confirm the doctrine which has been advanced than Mil- ton .... The voice of criticism has pronounced him the most learned among the poets .... His vast information , while it did not restrain , regulated ...
... writer would answer better to confirm the doctrine which has been advanced than Mil- ton .... The voice of criticism has pronounced him the most learned among the poets .... His vast information , while it did not restrain , regulated ...
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Էջ 126 - Nor think, though men were none, That Heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator!
Էջ 123 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Էջ 145 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Էջ 118 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Էջ 125 - The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Էջ 120 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh 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 his Maker?
Էջ 121 - O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
Էջ 119 - Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high ? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. Her young ones also suck up blood : and where the slain are, there is she.
Էջ 128 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbour there...
Էջ 144 - ... winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, Lords and Commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.