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... called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the ...
... called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the ...
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... called " The Puritan and Papist , " which was only inserted in the last collection of his Works ; and so distinguished himself by the warmth of his loyalty and the elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and ...
... called " The Puritan and Papist , " which was only inserted in the last collection of his Works ; and so distinguished himself by the warmth of his loyalty and the elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and ...
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... called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the usual fortune of complaints , and seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough ...
... called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the usual fortune of complaints , and seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough ...
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... called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the authors of this race were perhaps more desirous of being admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much ...
... called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the authors of this race were perhaps more desirous of being admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much ...
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... called forth by different occasions ; with great variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an assemblage of diversified excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among ...
... called forth by different occasions ; with great variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an assemblage of diversified excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among ...
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