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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... tion , abounding with errors : the defect then , is not in the genius , but in the assisting powers . Taste has been called passive genius . It is ne- cessary to direct the wild sallies of imagination , and to regulate the course of the ...
... tion , abounding with errors : the defect then , is not in the genius , but in the assisting powers . Taste has been called passive genius . It is ne- cessary to direct the wild sallies of imagination , and to regulate the course of the ...
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... tion in the solitary shades of Vaucluse ; but all his efforts to forget the object of his affection were in vain . Though he concealed himself in solitude from the observation of men ; yet the image of Laura followed him there . During ...
... tion in the solitary shades of Vaucluse ; but all his efforts to forget the object of his affection were in vain . Though he concealed himself in solitude from the observation of men ; yet the image of Laura followed him there . During ...
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... tion . I shall notice some , which are the most striking --- Cicero , the first name on the page of antiquity , failed in his attempts at poetry .--- Archimedes , whose name may stand for a large class devoted to mathematics , had ...
... tion . I shall notice some , which are the most striking --- Cicero , the first name on the page of antiquity , failed in his attempts at poetry .--- Archimedes , whose name may stand for a large class devoted to mathematics , had ...
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... tion of this author for the morality of his strains , for his de- fence of religion against the attacks of impiety and a new and dangerous philosophy . As a mi- Eloquence . While some she gives the orator's controul , 50 THE POWERS OF ...
... tion of this author for the morality of his strains , for his de- fence of religion against the attacks of impiety and a new and dangerous philosophy . As a mi- Eloquence . While some she gives the orator's controul , 50 THE POWERS OF ...
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... without a due propor- tion of argument , would have no effect upon the under- standing ; and argument , without declamation , would have Painting . To some she spreads a world's unbounded view E 2 THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 51.
... without a due propor- tion of argument , would have no effect upon the under- standing ; and argument , without declamation , would have Painting . To some she spreads a world's unbounded view E 2 THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 51.
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