 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 360 pages
...poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen ) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made ' without a genius,' nay, without learning, or much reading. This must necessarily be of great use to all those poets who confess they never read, and of whom the world... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 324 pages
...a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made ' without a genius,' nay, without learning, or much reading. This must necessarily be of. great use to all those poets who confess they never read, and of whom the world... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour, for the benefit of my countrymen, to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made ' without a genius,' nay, without learning, or much reading. This must necessarily be of great use to all those poets who confess they never read, and of whom the world... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 518 pages
...a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour, for the benefit of my countrymen, to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made without a genius, nay, without learning or much reading. This must necessarily be of great use to all those who confess they never read, and of whom the world is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 520 pages
...a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour, for the benefit of my countrymen, to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made without a genius, nay, without learning or much reading. This must necessarily be of great use to all those who confess they never read, and of whom the world is... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that an epic poem must necessarily be of great use to all those who confess they never read, and of whom the world is... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...performing them ; fur the firft qualification they unanitnoufly require in a poet, is a genius. I mall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen)...genius, nay without learning or much reading. This muft neceiTirily be of great ufe to all thofe who confefs they never read, and of whom the world is convinced... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made " without a genius, "nay, without learning, or much reading. This must necessarily be of great use to all those poets who confess they never read, and of whom the world... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 pages
...a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for tie benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made * without a genius,' nay, without learning, or much reading. Thi« must necessarily be of great use to all those poets who confess they never read, and of whom... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pages
...a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made ' without a genius,' nay, without learning or much reading. This must necessarily be of great use to all those poets who confess they never read, and of whom the world... | |
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