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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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But he wilfully shuts his eyes to the germs and indistinct workings of genius , and treats them with supercilious indifference , till they stare him in the face through the press ; and then takes cognizance only of the overt acts and ...
But he wilfully shuts his eyes to the germs and indistinct workings of genius , and treats them with supercilious indifference , till they stare him in the face through the press ; and then takes cognizance only of the overt acts and ...
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In general , it must happen in the first stages of the Arts , that as none but those who had a natural genius for them would attempt to practise them , so none but those who had a natural taste for them would pretend to judge of or ...
In general , it must happen in the first stages of the Arts , that as none but those who had a natural genius for them would attempt to practise them , so none but those who had a natural taste for them would pretend to judge of or ...
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On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 William Hazlitt,Geoffrey Keynes Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
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