The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... genius which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more surpasses the common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the ...
... genius which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more surpasses the common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the ...
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... genius , and degraded himself , by conferring that authority over the national taste , which he takes from the poets , upon men of high rank and wide influence , but of less wit , and not greater virtue . Here is again discovered the ...
... genius , and degraded himself , by conferring that authority over the national taste , which he takes from the poets , upon men of high rank and wide influence , but of less wit , and not greater virtue . Here is again discovered the ...
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... genius in the design , nor skill in the delineation : - " The first I shall name is mr . Johnson , a gentleman that owes to nature excellent faculties and an elevated genius , and to industry and application many acquired accom ...
... genius in the design , nor skill in the delineation : - " The first I shall name is mr . Johnson , a gentleman that owes to nature excellent faculties and an elevated genius , and to industry and application many acquired accom ...
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... genius results from this particular happy complexion in the first formation of the person that enjoys it , and is nature's gift , but diversified by various specific characters and limitations , as its active fire is blended and allayed ...
... genius results from this particular happy complexion in the first formation of the person that enjoys it , and is nature's gift , but diversified by various specific characters and limitations , as its active fire is blended and allayed ...
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... genius to make a physician of the first rank ; but , if those talents are separated , I asserted , and do still insist , that a man of native sagacity and diligence will prove a more able and useful practiser , than a heavy notional ...
... genius to make a physician of the first rank ; but , if those talents are separated , I asserted , and do still insist , that a man of native sagacity and diligence will prove a more able and useful practiser , than a heavy notional ...
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