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... true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally de- termined 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 of ...
... true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally de- termined 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 of ...
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... true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I be- lieve , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful ho- mage to his Laura , refined the manners of the let tered world ...
... true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I be- lieve , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful ho- mage to his Laura , refined the manners of the let tered world ...
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... true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! but actions are visible , though ...
... true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! but actions are visible , though ...
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... true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights out- shine , On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love ...
... true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights out- shine , On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love ...
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... true This bravery is , since these times shew'd me DONNE . you . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's re- flection upon Man as a Microcosm : If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ; All the ...
... true This bravery is , since these times shew'd me DONNE . you . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's re- flection upon Man as a Microcosm : If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ; All the ...
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