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Pagina xiv
... mind as I read their works . ' At last the minor poets overwhelmed him . Dejection took the place of amusement as he read . At his entreaty they were entrusted to a fresher hand . The time too came when the novelists ceased to amuse him ...
... mind as I read their works . ' At last the minor poets overwhelmed him . Dejection took the place of amusement as he read . At his entreaty they were entrusted to a fresher hand . The time too came when the novelists ceased to amuse him ...
Pagina 2
... mind and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction 5. Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great ...
... mind and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction 5. Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great ...
Pagina 4
... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published Love's Riddle , with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby 5 , of whose acquaintance all his contemporaries seem to have been ...
... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published Love's Riddle , with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby 5 , of whose acquaintance all his contemporaries seem to have been ...
Pagina 7
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw , complains of jealousy ...
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw , complains of jealousy ...
Pagina 8
... mind is more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded ...
... mind is more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded ...
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