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... perhaps sometimes for- gotten , produce that particular designation of 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 ...
... perhaps sometimes for- gotten , produce that particular designation of 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 ...
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... perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw the whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of ...
... perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw the whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of ...
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... perhaps of any other poet . - He read much , and yet borrowed little . His character of writing was indeed not his own : he unhappily adopted that which was predominant . He saw a certain way to present praise ; and , not sufficiently ...
... perhaps of any other poet . - He read much , and yet borrowed little . His character of writing was indeed not his own : he unhappily adopted that which was predominant . He saw a certain way to present praise ; and , not sufficiently ...
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... perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He , who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone , Which runs ...
... perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He , who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone , Which runs ...
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... perhaps some of his other pieces and , as he appears , whenever any Serious question comes before him , to have been aman of piety , he consecrated his poetical powers to religion , and , made a metrical version of the Psalms of David ...
... perhaps some of his other pieces and , as he appears , whenever any Serious question comes before him , to have been aman of piety , he consecrated his poetical powers to religion , and , made a metrical version of the Psalms of David ...
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