Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1857 |
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... genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded him or from the learning which he had acquired : and he looked back with something like regret to the ruder age of simple words and vivid impressions . We think that ...
... genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded him or from the learning which he had acquired : and he looked back with something like regret to the ruder age of simple words and vivid impressions . We think that ...
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... genius - such , for example , as Jonson - were far supe- rior to the best works of imagination in other departments . Therefore , though we conceive that , from causes which we have already investigated , our poetry must necessarily ...
... genius - such , for example , as Jonson - were far supe- rior to the best works of imagination in other departments . Therefore , though we conceive that , from causes which we have already investigated , our poetry must necessarily ...
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... genius , and , after all , is no defence . Otway pleased without rant ; and so might Dryden have done , if he had possessed the powers of Otway . The fact is , that he had a tendency to bombast , which , though subsequently corrected by ...
... genius , and , after all , is no defence . Otway pleased without rant ; and so might Dryden have done , if he had possessed the powers of Otway . The fact is , that he had a tendency to bombast , which , though subsequently corrected by ...
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