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... genius , found him by chance , as Burnet relates , reading Horace , and was so well pleased with his proficiency , that he undertook the care and cost of his academical educa- tion . He entered his name in St. John's College , at ...
... genius , found him by chance , as Burnet relates , reading Horace , and was so well pleased with his proficiency , that he undertook the care and cost of his academical educa- tion . He entered his name in St. John's College , at ...
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... genius , which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more sur- passes the common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and ...
... genius , which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more sur- passes the common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and ...
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... genius , and degraded him- self by conferring that authority over the national taste , which he takes from the poets , upon men of high rank and wide influence , but of less wit and not greater virtue . Here is again discovered the ...
... genius , and degraded him- self by conferring that authority over the national taste , which he takes from the poets , upon men of high rank and wide influence , but of less wit and not greater virtue . Here is again discovered the ...
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... genius in the design nor skill in the delineation . " The first I shall name is Mr. Johnson , a gentleman that owes to nature excellent faculties and an elevated genius , and to industry and application many acquired accomplishments ...
... genius in the design nor skill in the delineation . " The first I shall name is Mr. Johnson , a gentleman that owes to nature excellent faculties and an elevated genius , and to industry and application many acquired accomplishments ...
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... genius results from this particular happy complexion in the first formation of the person that enjoys it , and is Nature's gift , but diversified by various specific cha- racters and limitations , as its active fire is blended and ...
... genius results from this particular happy complexion in the first formation of the person that enjoys it , and is Nature's gift , but diversified by various specific cha- racters and limitations , as its active fire is blended and ...
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