The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xiv
... genius ' ! How he salutes its ' blaze of embellishment , ' its ' sweetness of melody ' ! Listen to this ' model of encomiastic criticism ' : ' The vigorous contraction of some thoughts , the luxuriant amplification of others , the ...
... genius ' ! How he salutes its ' blaze of embellishment , ' its ' sweetness of melody ' ! Listen to this ' model of encomiastic criticism ' : ' The vigorous contraction of some thoughts , the luxuriant amplification of others , the ...
Pàgina xxvii
... genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction , ' or that to imagine one's - self incapable of writing except at certain times , or at happy moments , is fantastic foppery . ' 6 6 The ...
... genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction , ' or that to imagine one's - self incapable of writing except at certain times , or at happy moments , is fantastic foppery . ' 6 6 The ...
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... 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 fondness 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 fondness for his art excited by the perusal ...
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... 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 himself the character of Physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention to ...
... 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 himself the character of Physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention to ...
Pàgina 10
... genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If the ...
... genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If the ...
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