Littell's Living Age, Volume 33Living Age Company Incorporated, 1852 |
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Page 44
... Genius , is the charge , In Nature's kingdom Nature to enlarge ! The Imitator . Good out of good - that art is known to all- But Genius from the bad the good can call ; Thou , Mimic , turn'st the same old substance o'er , And seek'st to ...
... Genius , is the charge , In Nature's kingdom Nature to enlarge ! The Imitator . Good out of good - that art is known to all- But Genius from the bad the good can call ; Thou , Mimic , turn'st the same old substance o'er , And seek'st to ...
Page 153
... genius , like the will of that Being of whose breath it is a minor inspiration , is sovereign , and like the wind , bloweth where it listeth ; and that to feel contempt for any lawful trade is a vul- garism and fallacy liable to the ...
... genius , like the will of that Being of whose breath it is a minor inspiration , is sovereign , and like the wind , bloweth where it listeth ; and that to feel contempt for any lawful trade is a vul- garism and fallacy liable to the ...
Page 422
... genius . The transcendent , the almost superlative inspirations of Goldsmith have descended to us ac- companied by testimony to the effect that they were the inspirations of an idiot , who was also a solemn coxcomb . There was doubtless ...
... genius . The transcendent , the almost superlative inspirations of Goldsmith have descended to us ac- companied by testimony to the effect that they were the inspirations of an idiot , who was also a solemn coxcomb . There was doubtless ...
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