The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... mind , and pro- pensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally de- termined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the ...
... mind , and pro- pensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally de- termined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the ...
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Samuel Johnson. language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the ... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle ...
Samuel Johnson. language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the ... 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 ela- borate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of com ... minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above ...
... mind to an ela- borate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of com ... minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above ...
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... mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered ...
... mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered ...
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... mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon him , and represent- ed to him the true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries ...
... mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon him , and represent- ed to him the true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries ...
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