English Critical Essays: (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930 - 460 sivua |
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Sivu 326
... genius , but the power of accomplishing great things without the means generally reputed necessary to that end ? A genius differs from a good understanding , as a magician from a good architect that raises his structure by means ...
... genius , but the power of accomplishing great things without the means generally reputed necessary to that end ? A genius differs from a good understanding , as a magician from a good architect that raises his structure by means ...
Sivu 327
... genius , I would compare genius to virtue , and learning to riches . As riches are most wanted where there is least virtue ; so learning where there is least genius . As virtue without much riches can give happiness , so genius without ...
... genius , I would compare genius to virtue , and learning to riches . As riches are most wanted where there is least virtue ; so learning where there is least genius . As virtue without much riches can give happiness , so genius without ...
Sivu 328
... genius , which stands in need of learning to make it shine . Of genius there are two species , an earlier and a later ; or call them infantine and adult . An adult genius comes out of Nature's hand , as Pallas out of Jove's head , at ...
... genius , which stands in need of learning to make it shine . Of genius there are two species , an earlier and a later ; or call them infantine and adult . An adult genius comes out of Nature's hand , as Pallas out of Jove's head , at ...
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