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... genius . unfitted for compounds . If a writer , every time a com- pounded word suggests itself to him , would seek for some other mode of expressing the same sense , the chances are always greatly in favor of his finding a better word ...
... genius . unfitted for compounds . If a writer , every time a com- pounded word suggests itself to him , would seek for some other mode of expressing the same sense , the chances are always greatly in favor of his finding a better word ...
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... genius . The Discipline , my mind had undergone , " Ne falleretur rotundo sono et ver- suum cursu , cincinnis et floribus ; sed ut inspi- ceret quidnam subesset , quæ sedes , quod firma- mentum , quis fundus verbis ; an figuræ essent ...
... genius . The Discipline , my mind had undergone , " Ne falleretur rotundo sono et ver- suum cursu , cincinnis et floribus ; sed ut inspi- ceret quidnam subesset , quæ sedes , quod firma- mentum , quis fundus verbis ; an figuræ essent ...
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... concerning Darwin's BOTANIC GARDEN , which , 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 ena- bled them afterwards to 18.
... concerning Darwin's BOTANIC GARDEN , which , 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 ena- bled them afterwards to 18.
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... genius to become less and less striking , in proportion to its success in improv- ing the taste and judgement of its contempora- ries . The poems of WEST indeed had the merit of chaste and manly diction , but they were cold , and , if I ...
... genius to become less and less striking , in proportion to its success in improv- ing the taste and judgement of its contempora- ries . The poems of WEST indeed had the merit of chaste and manly diction , but they were cold , and , if I ...
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... Ancient Mariner . Your poem must eternal be , Dear sir ! it cannot fail , For ' tis incomprehensible And without head or tail . CHAPTER II . Supposed irritability of men of Genius - 28 that time, and so decided was the opinion con- ...
... Ancient Mariner . Your poem must eternal be , Dear sir ! it cannot fail , For ' tis incomprehensible And without head or tail . CHAPTER II . Supposed irritability of men of Genius - 28 that time, and so decided was the opinion con- ...
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