Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1853 - 744 páginas |
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... talents will be a hinderance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his proficiency in the pursuits which are fashionable among his contemporaries ; and that proficiency will in general be proportioned to the vigour and ...
... talents will be a hinderance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his proficiency in the pursuits which are fashionable among his contemporaries ; and that proficiency will in general be proportioned to the vigour and ...
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... talents gave lustre to that melancholy period had been formed under the influence of happier days , and would leave no successors behind them . The times which shine with the greatest splendour in literary history are not always those ...
... talents gave lustre to that melancholy period had been formed under the influence of happier days , and would leave no successors behind them . The times which shine with the greatest splendour in literary history are not always those ...
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... talents than those which he probability , that he so eagerly adopted , and so possessed ; that , in aspiring to ... talent which blank he got nothing but his distortions for his pains . verse exhibits to the greatest advantage , and was ...
... talents than those which he probability , that he so eagerly adopted , and so possessed ; that , in aspiring to ... talent which blank he got nothing but his distortions for his pains . verse exhibits to the greatest advantage , and was ...
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... talent for description , or a talent for narration , department , he succeeded as completely as his may , for a time , pass for dramatic genius . contemporary Gibbons succeeded in the similar Dryden was an incomparable reasoner in verse ...
... talent for description , or a talent for narration , department , he succeeded as completely as his may , for a time , pass for dramatic genius . contemporary Gibbons succeeded in the similar Dryden was an incomparable reasoner in verse ...
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... talents , which he often turesque . His early writings resembled the abused , and of a sound judgment , the admoni- gigantic works of those Chinese gardeners tions of which he often neglected ; a man who who attempt to rival nature ...
... talents , which he often turesque . His early writings resembled the abused , and of a sound judgment , the admoni- gigantic works of those Chinese gardeners tions of which he often neglected ; a man who who attempt to rival nature ...
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