The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary PortraitsOxford University Press, 1960 - 302 стор. |
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... genius is haughty and aristocratic : Walter Scott , who is an aristocrat in principle , is popular in his writings , and is ( as it were ) equally servile to nature and to opinion . The genius of Sir Walter is essentially imita- tive ...
... genius is haughty and aristocratic : Walter Scott , who is an aristocrat in principle , is popular in his writings , and is ( as it were ) equally servile to nature and to opinion . The genius of Sir Walter is essentially imita- tive ...
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... genius and virtue . It is a sort of natural canonization . It makes the meanest of us sacred ; it installs the poet in his immortality , and lifts him to the skies . Death is the great assayer of the sterling ore of talent . At his ...
... genius and virtue . It is a sort of natural canonization . It makes the meanest of us sacred ; it installs the poet in his immortality , and lifts him to the skies . Death is the great assayer of the sterling ore of talent . At his ...
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... genius , and to find them neglected or treated with scorn , is one of the heaviest trials of human patience . We exaggerate our own merits when they are denied by others , and are apt to grudge and cavil at every particle of praise ...
... genius , and to find them neglected or treated with scorn , is one of the heaviest trials of human patience . We exaggerate our own merits when they are denied by others , and are apt to grudge and cavil at every particle of praise ...
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