The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volum 1G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, W. Robinson and Sons, Liverpool, E. Thomson, Manchester, J. Noble, Hull, J. Wilson, Berwick, W. Whyte and Company, Edinburgh, and R. Griffin and Company, Glasgow, 1820 |
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... called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally deter- mined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the ...
... called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally deter- mined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the ...
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... called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not pub- lished till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and there- fore the time at which it was ...
... called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not pub- lished till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and there- fore the time at which it was ...
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... called " The Puritan and Papist , " which was only inserted in the last collection of his works ; and so distinguished himself by the warmth of his loyalty , and the elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and ...
... called " The Puritan and Papist , " which was only inserted in the last collection of his works ; and so distinguished himself by the warmth of his loyalty , and the elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and ...
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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 ex- cited 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 ex- cited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough ...
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... called upon him , and represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of tem- perate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are ...
... called upon him , and represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of tem- perate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are ...
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