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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... meet with works of great inven- 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 ...
... meet with works of great inven- 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 ...
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... meet our busy eyes With equal pleasure , with the same surprise . The same excitements chill our soul with fear , The same afflictions draw the melting tear ; 81 91 Its Progress . The same gay prospects kindle warm desire THE POWERS OF ...
... meet our busy eyes With equal pleasure , with the same surprise . The same excitements chill our soul with fear , The same afflictions draw the melting tear ; 81 91 Its Progress . The same gay prospects kindle warm desire THE POWERS OF ...
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... meets his willing ear , The tale of sorrow ever claims his tear . These warm impressions speak uncultur'd Taste , Which lives with rustics in the dreary waste ; Which spreads o'er Nature an enrapturing smile , And smooths for man the ...
... meets his willing ear , The tale of sorrow ever claims his tear . These warm impressions speak uncultur'd Taste , Which lives with rustics in the dreary waste ; Which spreads o'er Nature an enrapturing smile , And smooths for man the ...
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... meets the 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 ...
... meets the 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 ...
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... meet And form in him a character complete . Throughout his isle the candidates for fame Bow with just reverence at his mighty name , When he the Poet's life sublimely draws , The world grows wise from his poetic laws . Whene'er he ...
... meet And form in him a character complete . Throughout his isle the candidates for fame Bow with just reverence at his mighty name , When he the Poet's life sublimely draws , The world grows wise from his poetic laws . Whene'er he ...
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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