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A language which , like the English , is almost without cases , is indeed in its very genius unfitted for compounds . If a writer , every time a compounded word suggests itself to him , would seek for some other mode of expressing the ...
A language which , like the English , is almost without cases , is indeed in its very genius unfitted for compounds . If a writer , every time a compounded word suggests itself to him , would seek for some other mode of expressing the ...
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From causes , which this is not the place to investigate , no models of past times , however perfect , can have the same vivid effect on the youthful mind , as the productions of contemporary genius . The Discipline , my mind had ...
From causes , which this is not the place to investigate , no models of past times , however perfect , can have the same vivid effect on the youthful mind , as the productions of contemporary genius . The Discipline , my mind had ...
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... Darwin's BOTANIC GARDEN , which , i for some years , was greatly extolled , not only by the reading public in general , but even by , those , whose genius . and natural robustness of understanding enabled them afterwards to act 18.
... Darwin's BOTANIC GARDEN , which , i for some years , was greatly extolled , not only by the reading public in general , but even by , those , whose genius . and natural robustness of understanding enabled them afterwards to act 18.
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... and the Hope , of Mr. Bowles ; for it is peculiar to original genius to become less and less striking , in proportion to its success in improving the taste and judgement of its contemporaries , The poems of West indeed had the merit ...
... and the Hope , of Mr. Bowles ; for it is peculiar to original genius to become less and less striking , in proportion to its success in improving the taste and judgement of its contemporaries , The poems of West indeed had the merit ...
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Your poem must eternal be , Dear sir ! it cannot fail , For ' tis incomprehensible And without head or tail . i CHAPTER II . Supposed irritability of men of Genius 28 that time, and so decided was the opinion ...
Your poem must eternal be , Dear sir ! it cannot fail , For ' tis incomprehensible And without head or tail . i CHAPTER II . Supposed irritability of men of Genius 28 that time, and so decided was the opinion ...
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