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Page 196
... poet , like áll artists , may enlarge his range and perfect his skill by labour and intense study , but the power comes from Nature , and even when the power is possessed it can only be exercised at certain periods . Dr. Johnson indeed ...
... poet , like áll artists , may enlarge his range and perfect his skill by labour and intense study , but the power comes from Nature , and even when the power is possessed it can only be exercised at certain periods . Dr. Johnson indeed ...
Page 207
... poets sincerity and concentration of purpose , breadth of imagination , sympathy with his kind , and the patient culture , without which no poet ever succeeded in attain - a pathos which few readers can resist . ing the highest eminence ...
... poets sincerity and concentration of purpose , breadth of imagination , sympathy with his kind , and the patient culture , without which no poet ever succeeded in attain - a pathos which few readers can resist . ing the highest eminence ...
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... poet The most prosaic doggerel of the true without this exceptional vivacity of tem- poet stands on a different footing from perament . He was witty and humor- the rhymes of a writer with whom verse ous , but habitually his spirits were ...
... poet The most prosaic doggerel of the true without this exceptional vivacity of tem- poet stands on a different footing from perament . He was witty and humor- the rhymes of a writer with whom verse ous , but habitually his spirits were ...
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Fifth Series | 3 |
THE STORY OF VALENTINE AND | 15 |
LETTERS FROM ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWN | 24 |
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