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Page 150
... genius exalted , but to take care lest imagina- tion hurry him beyond the bounds of nature . He holds diligence the ... genius , and that Cicero could never be a poet . The boy retires illuminated , resolves to follow his genius , and to ...
... genius exalted , but to take care lest imagina- tion hurry him beyond the bounds of nature . He holds diligence the ... genius , and that Cicero could never be a poet . The boy retires illuminated , resolves to follow his genius , and to ...
Page 246
... genius as voluntary differs from involuntary power . Ingenuity is genius in trifles ; greatness is genius in undertakings of much pith and moment . A clever or ingenious man is one who can do anything well , whether it is worth doing or ...
... genius as voluntary differs from involuntary power . Ingenuity is genius in trifles ; greatness is genius in undertakings of much pith and moment . A clever or ingenious man is one who can do anything well , whether it is worth doing or ...
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... genius for high poetry ; since the genius for high poetry calls forth the high and adequate form , and is inseparable from it . So that , on the one hand , from the absence of con- spicuous genius in a people for poetry , we may predict ...
... genius for high poetry ; since the genius for high poetry calls forth the high and adequate form , and is inseparable from it . So that , on the one hand , from the absence of con- spicuous genius in a people for poetry , we may predict ...
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Abraham Newland admirable beautiful better called character Chioggia church colour Dante delight dinner drama Elena Elizabethan Era English face fancy feel fellow French Gaiety Theatre genius gentlemen Gerado give Goldsmith gondola grace Grand Canal hand head hear heart Hernani honour humour imagination Irenæus kind lady laugh learned live look Malamocco Malebranche matter Messer mind Molière morning murder nature never Nicolas Poussin night observed Oliver Goldsmith once painted passed passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poem poet poetry poor round Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Shakespeare Sicarii Sir Roger sleep sort soul speak spirit style sweet talk taste tell theatre things thought Tintoretto tion Toad-in-the-hole told town true truth turn Venice verse Victor Hugo walk whist whole wonder words write young
References to this book
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |