The Lives of the English PoetsBernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 42
... genius to make a physician of the first rank ; but if those talents are separated , I asserted , and do still insist , that a man of native sagacity and diligence will prove a more able and useful practiser than a heavy national scholar ...
... genius to make a physician of the first rank ; but if those talents are separated , I asserted , and do still insist , that a man of native sagacity and diligence will prove a more able and useful practiser than a heavy national scholar ...
Pagina 43
... genius born to excel is cademned always to pursue , and never over- take . In the first uggestions of his imagination he acquiesced ; he thought ther good , and did not seek for better . His works may be read a ong time without the ...
... genius born to excel is cademned always to pursue , and never over- take . In the first uggestions of his imagination he acquiesced ; he thought ther good , and did not seek for better . His works may be read a ong time without the ...
Pagina 58
... genius . Much however must be allowed to the author of a new species of composition , though it be not of the highest kind . We owe to Gay the ballad opera ; a mode of comedy which at first was supposed to delight only by its novelty ...
... genius . Much however must be allowed to the author of a new species of composition , though it be not of the highest kind . We owe to Gay the ballad opera ; a mode of comedy which at first was supposed to delight only by its novelty ...
Pagina 66
... genius : a man of exalted merit becomes at once an accom- plished writer , as a beauty finds no great difficulty in passing for a wit . Granville was a man illustrious by his birth , and therefore attracted notice ; since he is by Pope ...
... genius : a man of exalted merit becomes at once an accom- plished writer , as a beauty finds no great difficulty in passing for a wit . Granville was a man illustrious by his birth , and therefore attracted notice ; since he is by Pope ...
Pagina 73
... genius being general and indefinite , is rarely gratified . It was read at that time with so much favour , that six editions were sold . At the arrival of King George he sung " The Royal Pro- gress ; " which being inserted in the ...
... genius being general and indefinite , is rarely gratified . It was read at that time with so much favour , that six editions were sold . At the arrival of King George he sung " The Royal Pro- gress ; " which being inserted in the ...
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