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Pàgina xvi
... genius , 421 - His Epitaphs , 433 . CHRISTOPHER PITT , 1699-1748 p . 441 Born at Blandford , 441 - Educated at Winchester and New College , 441 - His Translation of Virgil , 442- " Pitt pleases the critic , Dryden the people , " 442 ...
... genius , 421 - His Epitaphs , 433 . CHRISTOPHER PITT , 1699-1748 p . 441 Born at Blandford , 441 - Educated at Winchester and New College , 441 - His Translation of Virgil , 442- " Pitt pleases the critic , Dryden the people , " 442 ...
Pàgina xxii
... genius , who have had the bad taste to imagine that their talents elevated them above observance of the common rules of society . It must be also remarked , that in Johnson's time , the literary society of London was much more confined ...
... genius , who have had the bad taste to imagine that their talents elevated them above observance of the common rules of society . It must be also remarked , that in Johnson's time , the literary society of London was much more confined ...
Pàgina xxiv
... genius loci . In 1829 he wrote , " About fourteen years since I landed in Skye with a party of friends , and had the curiosity to ask what was the first idea on every one's mind at landing . All answered , separately , that it was the ...
... genius loci . In 1829 he wrote , " About fourteen years since I landed in Skye with a party of friends , and had the curiosity to ask what was the first idea on every one's mind at landing . All answered , separately , that it was the ...
Pàgina 1
... 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 perusal ...
... 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 perusal ...
Pàgina 5
... genius , nor our pity for a sufferer , dispose us to forget , that , if his activity was virtue , his retreat was cowardice . He then took upon him the character of physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention " to dissemble ...
... genius , nor our pity for a sufferer , dispose us to forget , that , if his activity was virtue , his retreat was cowardice . He then took upon him the character of physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention " to dissemble ...
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