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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 . The following fragment , written by Edmund Smith , upon the works of Philips , has been transcribed from the Bodleian manuscripts . ' A prefatory Discourse to the Poem on Mr. Philips , with a character of his writings . ' Ir is ...
... genius . The following fragment , written by Edmund Smith , upon the works of Philips , has been transcribed from the Bodleian manuscripts . ' A prefatory Discourse to the Poem on Mr. Philips , with a character of his writings . ' Ir is ...
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... genius , he had been an example to their poets , and a subject of their panegyricks , and perhaps set in competition with the ancients , to whom only he ought to submit . ' I shall therefore endeavour to do justice to his memory , since ...
... genius , he had been an example to their poets , and a subject of their panegyricks , and perhaps set in competition with the ancients , to whom only he ought to submit . ' I shall therefore endeavour to do justice to his memory , since ...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson,George Birkbeck Norman Hill Fragmentweergave - 1968 |
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