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 páginas |
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... writers who have excelled in its different departments . Analytical writers have divided genius into two kinds . The one belongs to the sciences ; the other to the arts . The one is employed in the discovery of truth : the other in the ...
... writers who have excelled in its different departments . Analytical writers have divided genius into two kinds . The one belongs to the sciences ; the other to the arts . The one is employed in the discovery of truth : the other in the ...
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... writers , require a train of reasoning before we can observe the basis on which they are founded . It may , however , tend to place taste in a clearer view than we can by the measures of poetry , if we select from some approved au ...
... writers , require a train of reasoning before we can observe the basis on which they are founded . It may , however , tend to place taste in a clearer view than we can by the measures of poetry , if we select from some approved au ...
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... writer of Fitz- osborne's letters ) is nothing more than an universal sense of beauty , rendered more exquisite by genius , and more correct by cultivation . " This definition , though not equal to the former , contains one beautiful ...
... writer of Fitz- osborne's letters ) is nothing more than an universal sense of beauty , rendered more exquisite by genius , and more correct by cultivation . " This definition , though not equal to the former , contains one beautiful ...
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... writers of Greece and of Rome . His soul was kindled by no borrowed fire . He was visited by no beams but those of the sun of Nature . In the smaller accomplishments of the poet , he is often- times deficient ; but the richness of his ...
... writers of Greece and of Rome . His soul was kindled by no borrowed fire . He was visited by no beams but those of the sun of Nature . In the smaller accomplishments of the poet , he is often- times deficient ; but the richness of his ...
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... writer could answer better to con- firm the doctrine which has been advanced than Milton .--- The voice of criticism has pronounced him the most learned among the poets .--- His vast information , while it did not restrain , regulated ...
... writer could answer better to con- firm the doctrine which has been advanced than Milton .--- The voice of criticism has pronounced him the most learned among the poets .--- His vast information , while it did not restrain , regulated ...
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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 Genius give gloomy glory Greece head hear heart heaven Henry Fielding honours idolatry Iliad 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 repose rise roll Rome rous'd Sappho says scene shades Shakespeare shew Sir William Jones sleep smile song sorrow soul sound 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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Página 98 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 90 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Página 92 - O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
Página 91 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh 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 his Maker?
Página 112 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 94 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Página 92 - Princes shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Página 92 - The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God : even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Página 89 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy...
Página 89 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the Earth; it hath raised up from their thrones >11 the kings of the nations.