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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... breath And man falls shivering in the arms of Death . Then from the body bursts the ransom'd soul , 150 159 Spurns the base earth and soars where systems roll , Great God ! where angels in thy presence throng She rests her flight and ...
... breath And man falls shivering in the arms of Death . Then from the body bursts the ransom'd soul , 150 159 Spurns the base earth and soars where systems roll , Great God ! where angels in thy presence throng She rests her flight and ...
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... breath ; Great Shakespear * now commands the midnight hour , And o'er the soul extends his dreadful power . 220 name . * So much has been said and written concerning this wonderful man , that no one can add to his praises , and no one ...
... breath ; Great Shakespear * now commands the midnight hour , And o'er the soul extends his dreadful power . 220 name . * So much has been said and written concerning this wonderful man , that no one can add to his praises , and no one ...
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... breath'd their vengeance on their murderer's head ; When Ariel sings and moves amid the air , When Banquo rises to the vacant chair ; When Hamlet's ghost , the bell then beating one , * Stalks pale and sullen by his warlike son . 230 ...
... breath'd their vengeance on their murderer's head ; When Ariel sings and moves amid the air , When Banquo rises to the vacant chair ; When Hamlet's ghost , the bell then beating one , * Stalks pale and sullen by his warlike son . 230 ...
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... breath of morn ; O'er the still heath the meteors dart their light And round him sweep the mournful blasts of Night . O voice of Cona , bard of other times , May thy bold spirit visit these dull climes ! May the brave chieftains of thy ...
... breath of morn ; O'er the still heath the meteors dart their light And round him sweep the mournful blasts of Night . O voice of Cona , bard of other times , May thy bold spirit visit these dull climes ! May the brave chieftains of thy ...
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... breath the yellow plain ; There languid Pleasure waves her gilded wings And slothful Ease the mental power unstrings . ---- Where Iceland spreads her dark and frozen wild On whose fell snows no cheering sun - beam smil'd , There in ...
... breath the yellow plain ; There languid Pleasure waves her gilded wings And slothful Ease the mental power unstrings . ---- Where Iceland spreads her dark and frozen wild On whose fell snows no cheering sun - beam smil'd , There in ...
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Էջ 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
Էջ 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,
Էջ 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."—
Էջ 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;
Էջ 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
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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
Էջ 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
Էջ 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
Էջ 90 - Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the