The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 3Pafraets Book Company, 1903 |
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... genius without learning 260 155 The usefulness of advice . The danger of habits . The necessity of reviewing life 266 L 156 The laws of writing not always indisputable . Reflections on tragi - comedy 273 157 The scholar's complaint of ...
... genius without learning 260 155 The usefulness of advice . The danger of habits . The necessity of reviewing life 266 L 156 The laws of writing not always indisputable . Reflections on tragi - comedy 273 157 The scholar's complaint of ...
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... influence the operations of the genius , though every day affords instances of local understanding , of wits and reason- ers , whose faculties are adapted to some single spot , and who , when they are removed to any other 32 THE RAMBLER.
... influence the operations of the genius , though every day affords instances of local understanding , of wits and reason- ers , whose faculties are adapted to some single spot , and who , when they are removed to any other 32 THE RAMBLER.
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... genius can much applaud himself for repeating a tale with which the audience is already tired , and which could bring no honour to any but its inventor . There are , I think , two schemes of writing , on which the laborious wits of the ...
... genius can much applaud himself for repeating a tale with which the audience is already tired , and which could bring no honour to any but its inventor . There are , I think , two schemes of writing , on which the laborious wits of the ...
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... genius ; and so far has this defect raised prejudices against us , that some have doubted whether an Englishman can stop at that mediocrity of style , or confine his mind to that even tenour of imagination , which narrative requires ...
... genius ; and so far has this defect raised prejudices against us , that some have doubted whether an Englishman can stop at that mediocrity of style , or confine his mind to that even tenour of imagination , which narrative requires ...
Pagina 68
... genius employed upon a foreign and uninteresting subject ; and that writer who might have secured perpetuity to his name , by a history of his own country , has exposed himself to the danger of oblivion , by recounting enter- prises and ...
... genius employed upon a foreign and uninteresting subject ; and that writer who might have secured perpetuity to his name , by a history of his own country , has exposed himself to the danger of oblivion , by recounting enter- prises and ...
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