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 էջ |
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... divine light , banishes religious superstition , and bows the knee with purer adoration , before the throne of God . Literature , on the rugged journey of life , scatters flowers ; it overshadows the path of the weary , and refreshes ...
... divine light , banishes religious superstition , and bows the knee with purer adoration , before the throne of God . Literature , on the rugged journey of life , scatters flowers ; it overshadows the path of the weary , and refreshes ...
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... divine ; Genius we know by her impetuous force ; We know the torrent by its headlong course ; We know the sun by his effulgent ray , Which gloom disperses from the face of day . Invention * marks the genius of the soul , And on the ...
... divine ; Genius we know by her impetuous force ; We know the torrent by its headlong course ; We know the sun by his effulgent ray , Which gloom disperses from the face of day . Invention * marks the genius of the soul , And on the ...
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... divine Georgics , -- through Milton's de- scriptive scenes , -- through the Seasons of Thomson and the Task of Cowper : He adopts the language of the bard of the Castle of Indolence . I care not Fortune what you me deny ; You cannot rob ...
... divine Georgics , -- through Milton's de- scriptive scenes , -- through the Seasons of Thomson and the Task of Cowper : He adopts the language of the bard of the Castle of Indolence . I care not Fortune what you me deny ; You cannot rob ...
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... divine truth than the preacher , who , though skilled in theology , has no per- ception of beauty and sublimity ; but who delivers trite truths in triter forms . To the pulpit , the close and indis- soluble reasoning of a Locke is not ...
... divine truth than the preacher , who , though skilled in theology , has no per- ception of beauty and sublimity ; but who delivers trite truths in triter forms . To the pulpit , the close and indis- soluble reasoning of a Locke is not ...
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... divine attributes . The fabled Jupi- ter of the Heathens at whose nod Olympus shook to its centre , is but a feeble being in comparison with that God who is described by the prophets -- What an infamous assemblage are Homer's deities ...
... divine attributes . The fabled Jupi- ter of the Heathens at whose nod Olympus shook to its centre , is but a feeble being in comparison with that God who is described by the prophets -- What an infamous assemblage are Homer's deities ...
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