English Critical Essays: (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930 - 460 Seiten |
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... original composition ; and the more willingly , as it seems an original subject to me , who have seen nothing hitherto written on it : But first , a few thoughts on composition in general . Some are of opinion that its growth , at ...
... original composition ; and the more willingly , as it seems an original subject to me , who have seen nothing hitherto written on it : But first , a few thoughts on composition in general . Some are of opinion that its growth , at ...
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... original writer , like Armida's wand , out of a barren waste calls a blooming spring . Out of that blooming spring an imitator is a transplanter of laurels , which sometimes die on removal , always languish in a foreign soil . But ...
... original writer , like Armida's wand , out of a barren waste calls a blooming spring . Out of that blooming spring an imitator is a transplanter of laurels , which sometimes die on removal , always languish in a foreign soil . But ...
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... original spirit can convey the British fame ; their names go round the world ; and what foreign genius strikes not as they pass ? Why should not their posterity embark in the same bold bottom of new ORIGINAL COMPOSITION 347.
... original spirit can convey the British fame ; their names go round the world ; and what foreign genius strikes not as they pass ? Why should not their posterity embark in the same bold bottom of new ORIGINAL COMPOSITION 347.
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