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... true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
... true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
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... true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I be- lieve , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
... true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I be- lieve , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
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... true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune " oni tas He 名 So differently are things seen ! and so differ- ently are they shown ! but actions are ...
... true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune " oni tas He 名 So differently are things seen ! and so differ- ently are they shown ! but actions are ...
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... true logic Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . ON ANACREON CONTINUING A LOVER IN HIN OLD AGE . Love was with ...
... true logic Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . ON ANACREON CONTINUING A LOVER IN HIN OLD AGE . Love was with ...
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... true This bravery is , since these times show'd me you . DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflection Man upon as a Microcosm : If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ; All the ...
... true This bravery is , since these times show'd me you . DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflection Man upon as a Microcosm : If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ; All the ...
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