LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... mind , and propenfity 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 . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great ...
... mind , and propenfity 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 . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great ...
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... minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his ... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle ...
... minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his ... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle ...
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... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy ...
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy ...
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... mind not yet called forth to action can dis- play . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his sorrow by imagining ...
... mind not yet called forth to action can dis- play . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his sorrow by imagining ...
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... mind by the mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode ...
... mind by the mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode ...
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