The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... GENIUS , BY ARTHUR MURPHY , Esq . VOLUME THE SIXTH . LONDON : PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON ; G. AND W. NICOL ; T. EGERTON ; LONGMAN , HURST , REES , ORME , AND BROWN ; T. CADELL ; J. NUNN ; J. CUTHELL ; J. AND W. T. CLARKE ; J ...
... GENIUS , BY ARTHUR MURPHY , Esq . VOLUME THE SIXTH . LONDON : PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON ; G. AND W. NICOL ; T. EGERTON ; LONGMAN , HURST , REES , ORME , AND BROWN ; T. CADELL ; J. NUNN ; J. CUTHELL ; J. AND W. T. CLARKE ; J ...
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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 ex- cited 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 ex- cited by the perusal ...
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... decyphering , comes to his own country and steps into a prison , will be willing enough to retire to some place of quiet and of safety . Yet let neither our reverence for a genius , nor our pity for a sufferer , dispose us to 10 COWLEY .
... decyphering , comes to his own country and steps into a prison , will be willing enough to retire to some place of quiet and of safety . Yet let neither our reverence for a genius , nor our pity for a sufferer , dispose us to 10 COWLEY .
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... genius , of opposite principles ; but con- curring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's Poem ap- peared * , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If ...
... genius , of opposite principles ; but con- curring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's Poem ap- peared * , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If ...
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... genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the know- ledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily ...
... genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the know- ledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily ...
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