Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Nonesuch Press, 1948 - 807 pagina's |
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... genius , will ever deprive him of . With respect to indications of early genius for particular things , I will just mention , that I myself know an instance of a little boy , who could catch the hardest tunes , when between two and ...
... genius , will ever deprive him of . With respect to indications of early genius for particular things , I will just mention , that I myself know an instance of a little boy , who could catch the hardest tunes , when between two and ...
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... Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength . A great name is an abstraction of some one excellence : but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence , so far from being great , may be sure that he is a blockhead ...
... Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength . A great name is an abstraction of some one excellence : but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence , so far from being great , may be sure that he is a blockhead ...
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... genius , if ever painter was a man of genius ! —did his dream hang over you as you painted that strange picture of " Jacob's Ladder " ? Did your eye strain over those gradual dusky clouds into futurity , or did those white - vested ...
... genius , if ever painter was a man of genius ! —did his dream hang over you as you painted that strange picture of " Jacob's Ladder " ? Did your eye strain over those gradual dusky clouds into futurity , or did those white - vested ...
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On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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