English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries).Edmund David Jones Oxford University Press, 1952 - 394 Seiten |
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... genius , I would compare genius to virtue , and learning to riches . As riches are most wanted where there is least virtue ; so learning where there is least genius . As virtue without much riches can give happiness , so genius without ...
... genius , I would compare genius to virtue , and learning to riches . As riches are most wanted where there is least virtue ; so learning where there is least genius . As virtue without much riches can give happiness , so genius without ...
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... genius , which stands in need of learning to make it shine . Of genius there are two species , an earlier and a later ; or call them infantine and adult . An adult genius comes out of Nature's hand , as Pallas out of Jove's head , at ...
... genius , which stands in need of learning to make it shine . Of genius there are two species , an earlier and a later ; or call them infantine and adult . An adult genius comes out of Nature's hand , as Pallas out of Jove's head , at ...
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... genius of a polite writer ; these are as the root , and composition as the flower ; and as the root spreads and thrives , shall the flower fail ? As well may a flower flourish , when the root is dead . It is prudence to read , genius to ...
... genius of a polite writer ; these are as the root , and composition as the flower ; and as the root spreads and thrives , shall the flower fail ? As well may a flower flourish , when the root is dead . It is prudence to read , genius to ...
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 55 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 61 |
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