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... genius , as strenuous energy . if they could be approached indolently , thoughtlessly , and without preparatory discipline . When the term was most in use , it was meant for that which is essential literature , and yet how meanly ...
... genius , as strenuous energy . if they could be approached indolently , thoughtlessly , and without preparatory discipline . When the term was most in use , it was meant for that which is essential literature , and yet how meanly ...
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... genius of the poet's sister , adds the comment , " Were I to say that a poet finds his best advisers among his female friends , it would be speaking from my own experience , and the greatest poet of the age would confirm it by his . But ...
... genius of the poet's sister , adds the comment , " Were I to say that a poet finds his best advisers among his female friends , it would be speaking from my own experience , and the greatest poet of the age would confirm it by his . But ...
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... genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the law of obedience and love . It is a beautiful example of the companionship of ...
... genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the law of obedience and love . It is a beautiful example of the companionship of ...
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... genius imagination is not an active element : there is no great poet into whose charac- ter the philosophic element does not largely enter . This should teach us a lesson in our studies of English lite- rature . For the combination of ...
... genius imagination is not an active element : there is no great poet into whose charac- ter the philosophic element does not largely enter . This should teach us a lesson in our studies of English lite- rature . For the combination of ...
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... genius which conceived the in- comprehensible character of Hamlet would alone be able to describe with intuitive truth the character of Scipio , or of Cromwell . " Now observe how two authors , of the finest powers in these two high ...
... genius which conceived the in- comprehensible character of Hamlet would alone be able to describe with intuitive truth the character of Scipio , or of Cromwell . " Now observe how two authors , of the finest powers in these two high ...
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