Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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... genius , or imagination , or fancy ; but still I must assert that every intellectual en- dowment may be improved . I must assert that writing , as far as chasteness , correctness , elegance , and fluency are concerned , is as much 8 8 ...
... genius , or imagination , or fancy ; but still I must assert that every intellectual en- dowment may be improved . I must assert that writing , as far as chasteness , correctness , elegance , and fluency are concerned , is as much 8 8 ...
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... genius ; for there is nothing in which folly is more dis- played than in too circumstantial a detail of trifling matters ; while , on the contrary , it is certain that a discourse ( and much more a poem ) which consists entirely of ...
... genius ; for there is nothing in which folly is more dis- played than in too circumstantial a detail of trifling matters ; while , on the contrary , it is certain that a discourse ( and much more a poem ) which consists entirely of ...
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... genius , there is nothing in which young and incompetent writers will so much expose themselves as in attempting it . Yet some authors of very secondary talents have acquired much temporary and transient fame , by an air of novelty ...
... genius , there is nothing in which young and incompetent writers will so much expose themselves as in attempting it . Yet some authors of very secondary talents have acquired much temporary and transient fame , by an air of novelty ...
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... genius fires , " Whom the diviner soul of verse inspires ; " Who talks true greatness - Let him boldly claim " The sacred honours of a poet's name . " FRANCIS . The sensation of the sublime is experienced when we survey a very large and ...
... genius fires , " Whom the diviner soul of verse inspires ; " Who talks true greatness - Let him boldly claim " The sacred honours of a poet's name . " FRANCIS . The sensation of the sublime is experienced when we survey a very large and ...
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... genius of different writers . It affords also an encouragement to this kind of study ( which would otherwise be what is called dry ) , by the beauty and utility of the quo- tations which the author employs to illus- trate his ...
... genius of different writers . It affords also an encouragement to this kind of study ( which would otherwise be what is called dry ) , by the beauty and utility of the quo- tations which the author employs to illus- trate his ...
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