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 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... bosom . The de- scriptions which it contains are accurate , but they are in- ferior to those of Burns in a glowing and exciting warmth . --- Cowper , in the fourth book of his Task , beautifully de- scribes the sensations of his early ...
... bosom . The de- scriptions which it contains are accurate , but they are in- ferior to those of Burns in a glowing and exciting warmth . --- Cowper , in the fourth book of his Task , beautifully de- scribes the sensations of his early ...
Pagina 44
... bosom known , Amid those scenes which Truth and Nature own , See Burney + move , with her creative wand , And bind our passions with her silken band ! 1 This celebrated French lady is remarkable for the ver- satility of her talents ...
... bosom known , Amid those scenes which Truth and Nature own , See Burney + move , with her creative wand , And bind our passions with her silken band ! 1 This celebrated French lady is remarkable for the ver- satility of her talents ...
Pagina 47
... bosom of luxurious France , The queen of Scotland led the airy dance , Love's softest lustre wanton'd o'er her face , 239 Her limbs were form'd , her actions mov'd , in grace . Science and Taste adorn'd her festive court , Music and Joy ...
... bosom of luxurious France , The queen of Scotland led the airy dance , Love's softest lustre wanton'd o'er her face , 239 Her limbs were form'd , her actions mov'd , in grace . Science and Taste adorn'd her festive court , Music and Joy ...
Pagina 48
... bosom of the pious Rowe The tender strain and warm devotion flow . In Woolstonecraft's strong lines behold confest The fatal errors of the female breast . Behold enforc'd in More's instructive page , Lessons of virtue for this careless ...
... bosom of the pious Rowe The tender strain and warm devotion flow . In Woolstonecraft's strong lines behold confest The fatal errors of the female breast . Behold enforc'd in More's instructive page , Lessons of virtue for this careless ...
Pagina 66
... bosom to the chilling gale ; Among the rocks he leans , to hear the roar Of billows chafing on the sounding shore . Each sound which strikes the village boor with fear , Is all the strain Orlando loves to hear . 120 One night when howl ...
... bosom to the chilling gale ; Among the rocks he leans , to hear the roar Of billows chafing on the sounding shore . Each sound which strikes the village boor with fear , Is all the strain Orlando loves to hear . 120 One night when howl ...
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amid APPENDIX Ariosto arms art thou bard beam beauty behold beneath bids blast bold bosom breast breath brow Chill clouds dark death delight Demosthenes divine dwell earth Eclogues fame Fancy Fingal fire footsteps Gallileo give gloomy glory Greece head hear heart heaven Henry Fielding honours Hope idolatry Invention kindled king light literature lyre Massillon MIDNIGHT HYMN mighty Milton mind morning mountains mournful muse Nature Nature's never night numbers o'er Orla Ossian Paradise Lost passions peace Petrarch Pindar plains poem poet poetry POWERS OF GENIUS repose rise roll Rome Rous'd Sappho says scene shades Shakespeare shew Sir William Jones sleep smile song sorrow soul spirit spread storm strain stream sublimity sword taste tears tempest terror thee thou thoughts thro throne thunder tion toil truth vale Vaucluse wandering waves wild winds wings writers youth
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Pagina 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
Pagina 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,
Pagina 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."—
Pagina 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;
Pagina 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
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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
Pagina 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
Pagina 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
Pagina 90 - Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the