| 1794 - 450 pages
...is properly a great genius, and to throw some thoughts together on so uncommon a subject. Amonggreat geniuses, those few draw the admiration of all the...prodigies of mankind, who by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works that were the delight... | |
| 1803 - 472 pages
...consider what is properly a great genius, and to throw some thoughts together on so uncommon a subject. Among great geniuses those few draw the admiration...prodigies of mankind, who by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works .that were the delight... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 322 pages
...what is properly a great genins, and to throw some thoughts together on so uncommon a subject, • • Among great geniuses those few 'draw the admiration...prodigies of mankind, who by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works that were the delight... | |
| Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...grest genins, and to throw some thonghts together on so uncommon a suhject. Among great geninses thuse few draw the admiration of all the world upon them, and stand up as the prodigies of mankind, who hy Ihc mere strength of Htural parts, and without any assistance of art or leaning, have produced works... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...consider what is properly r great genius, and to throw some thoughts together on so uncommon a subject. Among great geniuses, those few draw the admiration...prodigies of mankind, who, by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works that were tiie delight... | |
| Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...heroic verse, not a scribbler of heroic, ie epic poems: otherwise, what follows would be an anticlimax. Among great geniuses, those few draw the admiration...and stand up as the prodigies of mankind, who by the meer strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...consider what is properly a great genius, and to throw some thoughts together on so uncommon a subject. Among great geniuses, those few draw the admiration...and stand up as the prodigies of mankind, who by the meer strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works... | |
| G. Hamonière - 1819 - 388 pages
...réellement qu'un grand gônie , et de donner sur un sujet si peu commun quelques réflexions générales. Among great geniuses those few draw the admiration...prodigies of mankind, who by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works that were the delight... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...a great genius, and to throw some thoughts together on so uncommon a subject. Among great genuises those few draw the admiration of all the world upon...prodigies of mankind, who by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works that were the delight... | |
| Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...consider what is properly a great genius, and to throw some thoughts together on so uncommon a subject. ve nine score, natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works that were the delight... | |
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