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... mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great ...
... mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great ...
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... minds , seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his ... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge , he published Love's Riddle ...
... minds , seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his ... 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 elaborate purgation of his character from crimes , which he was never within the possibility of ... minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation , than as they show him to have been above the ...
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes , which he was never within the possibility of ... minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation , than as they show him to have been above the ...
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... mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not ...
... mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not ...
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... mind at leisure , and some as they were called forth by different occasions ; with great variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an assemblage of diversified excellence no other poet has hitherto ...
... mind at leisure , and some as they were called forth by different occasions ; with great variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an assemblage of diversified excellence no other poet has hitherto ...
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