Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & Bros., 1860 - 324 sider |
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... original genius is wonderfully aided in its development and display by learning and refinement , yet among the rudest people it has been found , like native gold and unwrought diamond , as pure and perfect in essence , though incrusted ...
... original genius is wonderfully aided in its development and display by learning and refinement , yet among the rudest people it has been found , like native gold and unwrought diamond , as pure and perfect in essence , though incrusted ...
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... original genius required for excelling in the one or the other , I leave undetermined . The Comparative Rewards of Professors of the Fine Arts . Having thus endeavoured to prove , by no invidious comparisons , that poetry is the eldest ...
... original genius required for excelling in the one or the other , I leave undetermined . The Comparative Rewards of Professors of the Fine Arts . Having thus endeavoured to prove , by no invidious comparisons , that poetry is the eldest ...
Side 31
... original in the third satire of Juvenal : - ' Haud facile emergunt , quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi . " " This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd , Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd . " Vanity of Human Wishes . To ...
... original in the third satire of Juvenal : - ' Haud facile emergunt , quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi . " " This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd , Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd . " Vanity of Human Wishes . To ...
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... original materials , those of ancient prose , especially in ethics . Most of the philosophers are but names , and their systems traditions , at this day . Plato , Aristotle , Cicero , and Seneca alone have survived in sufficient bulk ...
... original materials , those of ancient prose , especially in ethics . Most of the philosophers are but names , and their systems traditions , at this day . Plato , Aristotle , Cicero , and Seneca alone have survived in sufficient bulk ...
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... original , indeed , has such com- pass and capabilities for every kind of composition , that poetical prose , and even prosaic verse , may be made agreeable in it ; but no versions of either , into our severe and uncompromising tongue ...
... original , indeed , has such com- pass and capabilities for every kind of composition , that poetical prose , and even prosaic verse , may be made agreeable in it ; but no versions of either , into our severe and uncompromising tongue ...
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