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135 Farewell Song of Ossian . - - - - - - - - 139 Address to Hope . - - - - - - - - - - -
143 Picture of Morning . - - - - - - - - - . - 148 Epistle to a Friend , with the Poem on
the Powers of Genius - - • - - - - - - - - 150 。。。。 NAS GO STRELAS
PELLEGRO ...
135 Farewell Song of Ossian . - - - - - - - - 139 Address to Hope . - - - - - - - - - - -
143 Picture of Morning . - - - - - - - - - . - 148 Epistle to a Friend , with the Poem on
the Powers of Genius - - • - - - - - - - - 150 。。。。 NAS GO STRELAS
PELLEGRO ...
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Then from the body bursts the ransom ' d soul , Spurns the base earth and soars
where systems roll , Great God ! where angels in thy presence throng She rests
her flight and joins the ceaseless song . Taste * is the willing umpire of the soul ...
Then from the body bursts the ransom ' d soul , Spurns the base earth and soars
where systems roll , Great God ! where angels in thy presence throng She rests
her flight and joins the ceaseless song . Taste * is the willing umpire of the soul ...
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Uncultured Taste . Who loves to wander o ' er romantic plains , 189 Will likewise
love the bard ' s descriptive strains ; Who loves to listen to the feathered throng ,
Enraptur ' d hears the poet raise his song . * * That mind possesses the seeds of ...
Uncultured Taste . Who loves to wander o ' er romantic plains , 189 Will likewise
love the bard ' s descriptive strains ; Who loves to listen to the feathered throng ,
Enraptur ' d hears the poet raise his song . * * That mind possesses the seeds of ...
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Most of the nations of Europe have listened to the songs of Ossian with delight .
The Germans prefer them to the Iliad and the Ænied - - - and they have received
in Spain all the decorations which the printer and painter could afford . * This poet
...
Most of the nations of Europe have listened to the songs of Ossian with delight .
The Germans prefer them to the Iliad and the Ænied - - - and they have received
in Spain all the decorations which the printer and painter could afford . * This poet
...
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270 Untaught by science , not refin ' d by art , His sole instructors Nature and the
heart ; See lowly Burns * move slowly o ' er the lea , And breathe the song of
sweetest harmony . from Homer ' s Iliad . - - - Whereas Ariosto disdained any ...
270 Untaught by science , not refin ' d by art , His sole instructors Nature and the
heart ; See lowly Burns * move slowly o ' er the lea , And breathe the song of
sweetest harmony . from Homer ' s Iliad . - - - Whereas Ariosto disdained any ...
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Էջ 87 - 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 14 - 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 87 - 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 88 - 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 110 - 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 99 - 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 10 - 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 98 - 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 11 - 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 86 - Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
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| Վերնագիր | The Powers of Genius, a poem. (Illustrations of Genius from authors, ... attached to the poem in an appendix.) |
| Հեղինակ | John Blair Linn |
| Հրատարակիչ | Albion Press: : Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy Lane, for T. Williams, Stationers' Court, and T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row, 1804 |
| Original from | Նյու Յորքի Հանրային գրադարան |
| Digitized | 5 Հոկտեմբեր 2006 |
| Length | 155 էջ |
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