 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 568 pages
...them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake, as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those that have...among the Greeks were Plato and Aristotle ; among the Eomans, Virgil and Tully ; among the English, Milton and Sir Francis Bacon. The genius in both these... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...those that have formed themi selves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural Italents to the corrections and restraints of art. Such among...the Romans, Virgil and Tully ; among the English, ffiltnn and Sir Francis Bacon. The genius in both these classes of authors may be equally great, but... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake, as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those that have...among the Greeks were Plato and Aristotle ; among the Eomans, Virgil and Tully ; among the English, Milton and Sir Francis Bacon. The genius in both these... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...&re of a different kind. The second class of great penuises are those that have formed tbenueive* liy rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural...Aristotle among the Romans, Virgil and Tully ; among thr English, Milton and Sir Francis Bacon. The genius in both these classes of authors тал be equally... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1879 - 250 pages
...distinction's sake, as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those who have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the...Plato and Aristotle ; among the Romans, Virgil and Tally ; among the English, Milton and Sir Francis Bacon. The genius in both these classes of authors... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 618 pages
...are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those that have formed thembelves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural...among the Greeks were Plato and Aristotle ; among the Komans, Virgil and Tully ; among the English, Milton and Sir Francis Bacon. The genius in both these... | |
 | University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1907 - 436 pages
...but only for distinction's sake as they are of a different kind. This second class of great genius's are those that have formed themselves by rules, and...talents to the corrections and restraints of art. . . "The genius in both these classes of authors may be equally great, but it shews itself after a... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 pages
...them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake, as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those that have...among the English, Milton and Sir Francis Bacon." Sixteen years before, when he was not quite twenty-two years of age, Addison had thus expressed his... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 238 pages
...them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake, as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those that have...among the English, Milton and Sir Francis Bacon." Sixteen years before, when he was not quite twenty-two years of age, Addison had thus expressed his... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 pages
...but only for distinction's sake as they are of a different kind This second Class of great Genius's are those that have formed themselves by Rules, and...were Plato and Aristotle, among the Romans Virgil and Tally, among the English Milton and Sir Francis Bacon. The Genius in both these Classes of Authors... | |
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There is another kind of great geniuses which I shall place in a second class, not as I think them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those that have formed themselves... 
