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... young man , given more to dice and cards than study : ” and , therefore , gave
no prognosticks of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under
sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the literature of his country .
... young man , given more to dice and cards than study : ” and , therefore , gave
no prognosticks of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under
sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the literature of his country .
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by a perusal of our earlier versions ; some of them are the works of men well
qualified , not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , who yet , by a
mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded , at once , their originals and
themselves .
by a perusal of our earlier versions ; some of them are the works of men well
qualified , not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , who yet , by a
mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded , at once , their originals and
themselves .
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He that could fear lest his genius had fallen upon too old a world , or too chill a
climate , might consistently magnify to himself the influence of the seasons , and
believe his faculties to be vigorous only half the year . His submission to the ...
He that could fear lest his genius had fallen upon too old a world , or too chill a
climate , might consistently magnify to himself the influence of the seasons , and
believe his faculties to be vigorous only half the year . His submission to the ...
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The sale of thirteen hundred copies in two years , in opposition to so much recent
enmity , and to a style of versification new to all , and disgusting to many , was an
uncommon example of the prevalence of genius . The demand did not ...
The sale of thirteen hundred copies in two years , in opposition to so much recent
enmity , and to a style of versification new to all , and disgusting to many , was an
uncommon example of the prevalence of genius . The demand did not ...
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The English poems , though they make no promises of Paradise Lost , have this
evidence of genius , that they have a cast original and unborrowed . But their
peculiarity is not excellence ; if they differ from the verses of others , they differ for
the ...
The English poems , though they make no promises of Paradise Lost , have this
evidence of genius , that they have a cast original and unborrowed . But their
peculiarity is not excellence ; if they differ from the verses of others , they differ for
the ...
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| Titolo | The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autore | Samuel Johnson |
| Editore | Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | Indiana University |
| Digitalizzato | 30 gen 2009 |
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