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... 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 Richardson's
treatise .
... 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 Richardson's
treatise .
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This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as
merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the
manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect
Cowley ...
This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as
merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the
manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect
Cowley ...
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Pope has some epitaphs without names ; which are therefore epitaphs to be let ,
occupied indeed for the present , but hardly appropriated . The ode on Wit is
almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been
till ...
Pope has some epitaphs without names ; which are therefore epitaphs to be let ,
occupied indeed for the present , but hardly appropriated . The ode on Wit is
almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been
till ...
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Of these songs dedicated to festivity and gaiety , in which , even the morality is
voluptuous , and which teach nothing but the enjoyment of the present day , he
has given rather a pleasing , than a faithful , representation , having retained their
...
Of these songs dedicated to festivity and gaiety , in which , even the morality is
voluptuous , and which teach nothing but the enjoyment of the present day , he
has given rather a pleasing , than a faithful , representation , having retained their
...
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He saw a certain way to present praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what
means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human
manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in
its ...
He saw a certain way to present praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what
means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human
manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in
its ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Collection of British and American Authors Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 of Collection of British authors, Tauchnitz edition Volume 418 of Tauchnitz edition The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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