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... mind as I read their works . ' At last the minor poets overwhelmed him . Dejection took the place of amusement as he read . At his entreaty they were entrusted to a fresher hand . The time too came when the novelists ceased to amuse him ...
... mind as I read their works . ' At last the minor poets overwhelmed him . Dejection took the place of amusement as he read . At his entreaty they were entrusted to a fresher hand . The time too came when the novelists ceased to amuse him ...
Page xxvi
... mind , not very extensive ' or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Mis- cellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been ...
... mind , not very extensive ' or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Mis- cellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been ...
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... mind , not very extensive ? or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Miscellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ?; but I have been led ...
... mind , not very extensive ? or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Miscellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ?; but I have been led ...
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... mind and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction 5. Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great ...
... mind and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction 5. Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great ...
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... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . 9 Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published Love's Riddle , with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby 5 , of whose acquaintance all his contemporaries seem to have been ...
... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . 9 Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published Love's Riddle , with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby 5 , of whose acquaintance all his contemporaries seem to have been ...
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