Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 |
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As to genius and capacity for the works of art and science , all that a man really excels in is his own and incommunicable ; what he borrows from others he has in an inferior degree , and it is never what his fame rests on .
As to genius and capacity for the works of art and science , all that a man really excels in is his own and incommunicable ; what he borrows from others he has in an inferior degree , and it is never what his fame rests on .
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Besides , everyone must be sensible of a thousand weaknesses and deficiencies in himself ; whereas Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength . A great name is an abstraction of some one excellence : but whoever fancies ...
Besides , everyone must be sensible of a thousand weaknesses and deficiencies in himself ; whereas Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength . A great name is an abstraction of some one excellence : but whoever fancies ...
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Thou wert a man of genius , if ever painter was a man of genius ! -did his dream hang over you as you painted that strange picture of “ Jacob's Ladder " ? Did your eye strain over those gradual dusky clouds into futurity , or did those ...
Thou wert a man of genius , if ever painter was a man of genius ! -did his dream hang over you as you painted that strange picture of “ Jacob's Ladder " ? Did your eye strain over those gradual dusky clouds into futurity , or did those ...
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On the Love of the Country | 3 |
On the Ignorance of the Learned | 13 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
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