Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - 340 oldal |
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... genius was at once instantly recognizable and impossible to specify, a very certain incertitude: “We cannot define [genius]; but we recognize it, although we may be hard put to it to say what it is.”8 The undefinability, and one might ...
... genius was at once instantly recognizable and impossible to specify, a very certain incertitude: “We cannot define [genius]; but we recognize it, although we may be hard put to it to say what it is.”8 The undefinability, and one might ...
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... genius is defined as — A man endowed with superior faculties . This exhausts all that Johnson has to say on the matter , except as regards the imaginary creature of classical authors called a Genius , which does not concern us , and ...
... genius is defined as — A man endowed with superior faculties . This exhausts all that Johnson has to say on the matter , except as regards the imaginary creature of classical authors called a Genius , which does not concern us , and ...
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... genius is. Furthermore, we may note that genius is contrasted with observation, in that one or the other may “discover to the author” these rules. It seems unlikely that anyone could discover a “rule of art” without observation—even a ...
... genius is. Furthermore, we may note that genius is contrasted with observation, in that one or the other may “discover to the author” these rules. It seems unlikely that anyone could discover a “rule of art” without observation—even a ...
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