The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 6, Issues 2-4Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1809 |
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Page 85
... genius and enthusiasm , but at the same time betrays the want of a correct taste , and a dis- criminating judgment . We meet in every page with the glare and tinsel of Della Crusca . Her poems have the incorrectness of Moore , without ...
... genius and enthusiasm , but at the same time betrays the want of a correct taste , and a dis- criminating judgment . We meet in every page with the glare and tinsel of Della Crusca . Her poems have the incorrectness of Moore , without ...
Page 87
... genius without the least obstruction ; and possibly what to them appear defects are like moles , that sometimes increase the beauty of the face that contains them . " THE PORTRAIT . The following is a translation of an epigram from the ...
... genius without the least obstruction ; and possibly what to them appear defects are like moles , that sometimes increase the beauty of the face that contains them . " THE PORTRAIT . The following is a translation of an epigram from the ...
Page 88
... genius , there can be but one opinion . In sublimity , he excels , perhaps , all writers . But his style is often stiff , quaint , and pedantick , from which cause arises the difficulty of reading him . Sheridan , the rhetorician ...
... genius , there can be but one opinion . In sublimity , he excels , perhaps , all writers . But his style is often stiff , quaint , and pedantick , from which cause arises the difficulty of reading him . Sheridan , the rhetorician ...
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... genius e'en in woman crown with bays , To you I dedicate my final lays , To you , who never bar the gates of fame Against our subject sex of humbler name , Who ne'er , with narrow jealousy of mind , Deem talents solely to a sex confin'd ...
... genius e'en in woman crown with bays , To you I dedicate my final lays , To you , who never bar the gates of fame Against our subject sex of humbler name , Who ne'er , with narrow jealousy of mind , Deem talents solely to a sex confin'd ...
Page 105
... genius " builds the lofty rhyme , " Whate'er it feigns , if perfect , fair , sublime , Is but a ray , an emanating beam , Shot from th ' Eternal Mind , from light Supreme . Ah , would to God that I had early given My heart to this kind ...
... genius " builds the lofty rhyme , " Whate'er it feigns , if perfect , fair , sublime , Is but a ray , an emanating beam , Shot from th ' Eternal Mind , from light Supreme . Ah , would to God that I had early given My heart to this kind ...
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