On genius, in which it is attempted to be proved that there is no mental distinction among mankind |
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... Oriental Poets , has its origin in heaven . When one page of an author thus fur- nishes a comment upon another , it renders the text of both too clear to be questioned . Cicero defines , or rather describes Genius in the following 9.
... Oriental Poets , has its origin in heaven . When one page of an author thus fur- nishes a comment upon another , it renders the text of both too clear to be questioned . Cicero defines , or rather describes Genius in the following 9.
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... origin in sensation ; or which has not a necessary connexion with sensible objects , I shall be glad to be told what that idea is , and by what method it was acquired . So necessarily are all our notions confined to objects of sense ...
... origin in sensation ; or which has not a necessary connexion with sensible objects , I shall be glad to be told what that idea is , and by what method it was acquired . So necessarily are all our notions confined to objects of sense ...
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... origin to sensible objects , or abstractions derived from them ; or in other terms , to a perfect organization of the senses . Before we proceed any further in our inquiries , let us briefly review the progress we have made , and the ...
... origin to sensible objects , or abstractions derived from them ; or in other terms , to a perfect organization of the senses . Before we proceed any further in our inquiries , let us briefly review the progress we have made , and the ...
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... ; and I fearlessly ask for a quotation from the sublime poem of this great master , which cannot be resolved into sensible images ; which did not owe its origin to sense . And whoever will examine the Iliad , from the first 71.
... ; and I fearlessly ask for a quotation from the sublime poem of this great master , which cannot be resolved into sensible images ; which did not owe its origin to sense . And whoever will examine the Iliad , from the first 71.
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... origin in the human countenance ; no truth in philosophy , no discovery in art , which has not drawn all its materials from objects around us ; and every one of them through the senses . " And now , that the design and conclusions of ...
... origin in the human countenance ; no truth in philosophy , no discovery in art , which has not drawn all its materials from objects around us ; and every one of them through the senses . " And now , that the design and conclusions of ...
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Page 48 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 70 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 9 - Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Page 8 - Among great geniuses, those few draw the admiration of all the world upon them, and stand up as the prodigies of mankind, who, by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works that were the delight of their own times, and the wonder of posterity.
Page 33 - A thinking being, — that is, a being doubting, knowing, affirming, denying, consenting, refusing, susceptible of pleasure and of pain.* Of all these things I might have had complete experience, without any previous acquaintance with the qualities and laws of matter ; and therefore it is impossible that the study of matter can avail me aught in the study of myself.
Page 47 - Emerged, he sat, and mourn'd his Argives slain. At Jove incensed, with grief and fury stung, Prone down the rocky steep he rush'd along ; Fierce as he pass'd, the lofty mountains nod, The forest shakes ; earth trembled as he trod, 30 And felt the footsteps of the immortal god.
Page 10 - Atqui sic a summis hominibus eruditissimisque accepimus, ceterarum rerum studia et doctrina et praeceptis et arte constare, poe'tam natura ipsa valere et mentis viribus excitari et quasi divino quodam spiritu inflari.
Page 31 - The Sphinx, the famous monster born of Chimaera, and having the head of a woman, the wings of a bird, the body of a dog, and the paws of a lion ; and whose riddle, " What animal walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three at night ? " so puzzled the Thebans, that King Creon offered his crown and his daughter Jocasta to any one who should solve it, and so free the land of the uncomfortable...