Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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Side xi
... genius who has written a little book , we have a thousand little geniuses , who have written great books . A volume , therefore , that contains more words than ideas , like a tree that has more foliage than fruit , may suit those to ...
... genius who has written a little book , we have a thousand little geniuses , who have written great books . A volume , therefore , that contains more words than ideas , like a tree that has more foliage than fruit , may suit those to ...
Side xii
... genius , and an able one too ; but as the true gentleman will appear , even in rags , so true gen- ius will shine even through the coarsest style . But above all I do most earnestly hope , that none will accuse me of usurping on this ...
... genius , and an able one too ; but as the true gentleman will appear , even in rags , so true gen- ius will shine even through the coarsest style . But above all I do most earnestly hope , that none will accuse me of usurping on this ...
Side 23
... genius . Because some have united these extravagances , with great demonstrations of talent , as a Rousseau , a Chat- terton , a Savage , a Burns , or a Byron ; others , • finding it less difficult to be eccentric , than LACON . 223.
... genius . Because some have united these extravagances , with great demonstrations of talent , as a Rousseau , a Chat- terton , a Savage , a Burns , or a Byron ; others , • finding it less difficult to be eccentric , than LACON . 223.
Side 24
... genius is never so great , as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason ; it is from such a combination , like that of Buce- phalus , reined in by Alexander , that the most powerful efforts have been produced . And be it ...
... genius is never so great , as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason ; it is from such a combination , like that of Buce- phalus , reined in by Alexander , that the most powerful efforts have been produced . And be it ...
Side 29
... genius which inspired the whole of them . Avarice begets more vices than Priam did chil- dren , and like Priam survives them all . It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead ; and makes him submit to more mortifications to ...
... genius which inspired the whole of them . Avarice begets more vices than Priam did chil- dren , and like Priam survives them all . It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead ; and makes him submit to more mortifications to ...
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