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 30
... clouds and lines ; The sculptor's polish can each feature give , And even make the rugged marble live ! Thus Genius , in the night of darkness born , May wind , unnotic'd , her resounding horn , Unless fair Science to her wondering soul ...
... clouds and lines ; The sculptor's polish can each feature give , And even make the rugged marble live ! Thus Genius , in the night of darkness born , May wind , unnotic'd , her resounding horn , Unless fair Science to her wondering soul ...
Pagina 66
... clouds o'erspread , And wilder tempests beat upon his head : His phrenzy grew amid the ruthless storm ; His Fancy saw his long - lost Anna's form : Onward he rush'd --- he held the form in view , He call'd on Anna --- Anna from him flew ...
... clouds o'erspread , And wilder tempests beat upon his head : His phrenzy grew amid the ruthless storm ; His Fancy saw his long - lost Anna's form : Onward he rush'd --- he held the form in view , He call'd on Anna --- Anna from him flew ...
Pagina 71
... clouds o'ercast , She hove the ocean with her yelling blast , When thunders roll'd from her Creator's hand , Burst from the skies and shook the wondering land --- I heard entranc'd the Grecian's epic - strain , Enraptur'd listen'd to ...
... clouds o'ercast , She hove the ocean with her yelling blast , When thunders roll'd from her Creator's hand , Burst from the skies and shook the wondering land --- I heard entranc'd the Grecian's epic - strain , Enraptur'd listen'd to ...
Pagina 76
... clouds from a period the most important and interesting . It unfolds , in its hero Lorenzo , a magnificence which was princely , and a patronage of learning which we cannot estimate too much . To him the whole literary world is indebted ...
... clouds from a period the most important and interesting . It unfolds , in its hero Lorenzo , a magnificence which was princely , and a patronage of learning which we cannot estimate too much . To him the whole literary world is indebted ...
Pagina 79
... peace : O ! let your own Columbia rival Greece . Thus Genius spoke - express'd a parent's prayer ; Rose on the clouds , and melted into air . 360 NOTE . I HAVE hitherto forborne to speak of American THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 79.
... peace : O ! let your own Columbia rival Greece . Thus Genius spoke - express'd a parent's prayer ; Rose on the clouds , and melted into air . 360 NOTE . I HAVE hitherto forborne to speak of American THE POWERS OF GENIUS . 79.
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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