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Without going into the tedious discussion of what genius precisely is , there can be no doubt that Bunyan possessed it . Poeta nascitur , non fit , of course ; and most certainly Bunyan was never a poet . But there is no congenital ...
Without going into the tedious discussion of what genius precisely is , there can be no doubt that Bunyan possessed it . Poeta nascitur , non fit , of course ; and most certainly Bunyan was never a poet . But there is no congenital ...
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He does not attempt to go behind this curious phenomenon , which he held no doubt to be sufficiently established by the history of the Athenian stage . Nor does he say that the pleasure derived from the spectacle of tragedy was ...
He does not attempt to go behind this curious phenomenon , which he held no doubt to be sufficiently established by the history of the Athenian stage . Nor does he say that the pleasure derived from the spectacle of tragedy was ...
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The persistency of this tendency to recognise his qualities generously with half the mind , and then to swamp them with apologies , is due , without doubt , to the continuous compelling interest of Boswell's ' Life of Johnson ' ...
The persistency of this tendency to recognise his qualities generously with half the mind , and then to swamp them with apologies , is due , without doubt , to the continuous compelling interest of Boswell's ' Life of Johnson ' ...
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Contents
VOL 251 | 1 |
The Revolt of the Camisards 17021704 | 7 |
Coal Power and Industry | 13 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 251 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1928 |
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