The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in 3 PartsJ. Conrad & Company, 1802 - 191 pages |
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... light , banishes religious superstition , and bows the knee with purer adoration , before the throne of God . Literature , on the rugged journey of life , scatters flowers ; it overshadows the path of the weary , and refreshes the ...
... light , banishes religious superstition , and bows the knee with purer adoration , before the throne of God . Literature , on the rugged journey of life , scatters flowers ; it overshadows the path of the weary , and refreshes the ...
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... light . Thus Genius first begins her brightening course , Proceeds increasing in resistless force ; And all collected in one great design , Moves like a giant just refresh'd with wine : 60 Then sweeps the storm which chills with loud ...
... light . Thus Genius first begins her brightening course , Proceeds increasing in resistless force ; And all collected in one great design , Moves like a giant just refresh'd with wine : 60 Then sweeps the storm which chills with loud ...
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... light ; ' Tis said , he babbles to the Moon's full - beam , And sits , in silence , by the falling stream . Research can scarcely modify and range The various forms and times of mental change ; Beneath fond Nature's care our bodies grow ...
... light ; ' Tis said , he babbles to the Moon's full - beam , And sits , in silence , by the falling stream . Research can scarcely modify and range The various forms and times of mental change ; Beneath fond Nature's care our bodies grow ...
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... light of the moon . As he could not at all times ob- tain paper , parts of his work were written upon leather and upon the bark of trees . He has introduced much fire in his battles . His poem is as wild as the nations who are the ...
... light of the moon . As he could not at all times ob- tain paper , parts of his work were written upon leather and upon the bark of trees . He has introduced much fire in his battles . His poem is as wild as the nations who are the ...
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... light And round him sweep the mournful blasts of Night . O voice of Cona , bard of other times , May thy bold spirit visit these dull climes ! May the brave chieftains of thy rugged plains , 260 Remember Ossian * and revere his strains ...
... light And round him sweep the mournful blasts of Night . O voice of Cona , bard of other times , May thy bold spirit visit these dull climes ! May the brave chieftains of thy rugged plains , 260 Remember Ossian * and revere his strains ...
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