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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 of ...
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 of ...
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Men of the greatest genius are sometimes lazy , and want a spur ; often modest , and dare not venture in publick ; they certainly know their faults in the worst things ; and even their best things they are not fond of , because the idea ...
Men of the greatest genius are sometimes lazy , and want a spur ; often modest , and dare not venture in publick ; they certainly know their faults in the worst things ; and even their best things they are not fond of , because the idea ...
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No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure , separated mirth from indecency , and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid ...
No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure , separated mirth from indecency , and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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