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... called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School , where he was ...
... called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School , where he was ...
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... called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been sometime at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed ...
... called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been sometime at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed ...
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... called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles es 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 , mali- ciously ...
... called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles es 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 , mali- ciously ...
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... called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminent- ly 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 ...
... called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminent- ly 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 ...
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... called forth by different occasions , with great variety of style and sentiment , from bur- lesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an as- semblage of diversified excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best ...
... called forth by different occasions , with great variety of style and sentiment , from bur- lesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an as- semblage of diversified excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best ...
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