The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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... called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fond- ness for his art excited by the ...
... called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fond- ness for his art excited by the ...
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... called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was ...
... called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was ...
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... called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the usual fortune of complaints , and seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough ...
... called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the usual fortune of complaints , and seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough ...
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... called forth by different occasions ; with great variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an assemblage of diversified ex- cellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among ...
... called forth by different occasions ; with great variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an assemblage of diversified ex- cellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among ...
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... called the Mistress , of which it is not neces- sary to select any particular pieces for praise or censure . They have all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and ...
... called the Mistress , of which it is not neces- sary to select any particular pieces for praise or censure . They have all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and ...
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