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 Seiten |
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... waves its head in the tempest , also produces weeds and sickly flow- ers . The slightest impulse is at times sufficient to rouse the full strength of genius . A spark com- municated excites the most terrible explosion . The greatest ...
... waves its head in the tempest , also produces weeds and sickly flow- ers . The slightest impulse is at times sufficient to rouse the full strength of genius . A spark com- municated excites the most terrible explosion . The greatest ...
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... waves o'er Nature his commanding wand ; When on the field of Bosworth , Richard lay , And horrors shudder'd at approaching day , The ghosts of York hung o'er his trembling bed And breath'd their vengeance on their murderer's head ; When ...
... waves o'er Nature his commanding wand ; When on the field of Bosworth , Richard lay , And horrors shudder'd at approaching day , The ghosts of York hung o'er his trembling bed And breath'd their vengeance on their murderer's head ; When ...
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... waves along the friths and lakes , and the hollow sound of the winds through the rocks and the caverns , which he has compared to the voice of a spirit . The admiration which the works of Ossian have excited abroad , is a confirming ...
... waves along the friths and lakes , and the hollow sound of the winds through the rocks and the caverns , which he has compared to the voice of a spirit . The admiration which the works of Ossian have excited abroad , is a confirming ...
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... waves her gilded wings And slothful Ease the mental power unstrings . -Where Iceland spreads her dark and frozen wild On whose fell snows no cheering sun - beam smil❜d , There in their stormy , cold , and midnight cell 351 The ...
... waves her gilded wings And slothful Ease the mental power unstrings . -Where Iceland spreads her dark and frozen wild On whose fell snows no cheering sun - beam smil❜d , There in their stormy , cold , and midnight cell 351 The ...
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... Waves its bright billows o'er the fruitful plain ; For him no harvest yields its full supply When Winter hurls his tempests thro ' the sky . 370 No joys he knows but those which spring from strife , Unknown to him the charms of social ...
... Waves its bright billows o'er the fruitful plain ; For him no harvest yields its full supply When Winter hurls his tempests thro ' the sky . 370 No joys he knows but those which spring from strife , Unknown to him the charms of social ...
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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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 92 - Princes shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Seite 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.
Seite 89 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy...
Seite 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.