Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... genius , the wise and pure enthusiasm , and the exalted beneficence of that great man ' was conspicuous . The strong religious utter- ances occurring in the letters expressed thoughts which were not Birkbeck Hill's , but he saw in ...
... genius , the wise and pure enthusiasm , and the exalted beneficence of that great man ' was conspicuous . The strong religious utter- ances occurring in the letters expressed thoughts which were not Birkbeck Hill's , but he saw in ...
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... Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction 5. Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great Painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal ...
... Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction 5. Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great Painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal ...
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... genius , nor our pity for a sufferer , dispose us to forget that , if his activity was virtue , his retreat was cowardice 3 . 25 He then took upon himself the character of Physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention ' to ...
... genius , nor our pity for a sufferer , dispose us to forget that , if his activity was virtue , his retreat was cowardice 3 . 25 He then took upon himself the character of Physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention ' to ...
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... genius , of opposite principles , but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . He was ...
... genius , of opposite principles , but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . He was ...
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... genius , continues : - ' Great Cowley's Muse the same ill- treatment had , Whose verse shall live for ever to upbraid Th ' ungrateful world that left such worth unpaid . ' Oldham's Works , 1703 , p . 420 . Comedy of The Guardian for the ...
... genius , continues : - ' Great Cowley's Muse the same ill- treatment had , Whose verse shall live for ever to upbraid Th ' ungrateful world that left such worth unpaid . ' Oldham's Works , 1703 , p . 420 . Comedy of The Guardian for the ...
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