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... genius had fallen upon too old a world , or too chill a cli- mate , might consistently magnify to himself the * This opinion is , with great learning and ingenu- ity , refuted in a book now very little known , “ An Apology or ...
... genius had fallen upon too old a world , or too chill a cli- mate , might consistently magnify to himself the * This opinion is , with great learning and ingenu- ity , refuted in a book now very little known , “ An Apology or ...
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... genius . The demand did not immediately increase ; for many more readers than were supplied at first the nation did not afford . Only three thousand were sold in eleven years ; for it forced its way without assistance ; its admirers did ...
... genius . The demand did not immediately increase ; for many more readers than were supplied at first the nation did not afford . Only three thousand were sold in eleven years ; for it forced its way without assistance ; its admirers did ...
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... genius is due to the writer of an epic poem , as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other com- positions . Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth , by calling imagination to the help of ...
... genius is due to the writer of an epic poem , as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other com- positions . Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth , by calling imagination to the help of ...
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... genius , and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bounti . fully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast , illuminating the splendid , enforcing the awful , darkening the gloomy , and aggravating the ...
... genius , and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bounti . fully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast , illuminating the splendid , enforcing the awful , darkening the gloomy , and aggravating the ...
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... genius ; of a great accumulation of materials , with judgment to digest , and fancy to combine them : Milton was able to select from nature , or from story , from ancient fable , or from modern science , whatever could illus- trate or ...
... genius ; of a great accumulation of materials , with judgment to digest , and fancy to combine them : Milton was able to select from nature , or from story , from ancient fable , or from modern science , whatever could illus- trate or ...
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