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... talents will be a hinderance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his proficiency in the pursuits which are fashionable among his contemporaries ; and that proficiency will in general be proportioned to the vigour and ...
... talents will be a hinderance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his proficiency in the pursuits which are fashionable among his contemporaries ; and that proficiency will in general be proportioned to the vigour and ...
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... talents which The Clizia is an imitation of the Casina of would have enabled him to excel in it . By the Plautus , which is itself an imitation of the lost correct and vigorous delineation of human na - Kapcupera of Diphilus . Plautus ...
... talents which The Clizia is an imitation of the Casina of would have enabled him to excel in it . By the Plautus , which is itself an imitation of the lost correct and vigorous delineation of human na - Kapcupera of Diphilus . Plautus ...
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... talents . From the moment that Charles the Eighth descended from the Alps , the whole character of Italian politics was changed . The governments of the Peninsula cease to form an independent system . Drawn from their old We have ...
... talents . From the moment that Charles the Eighth descended from the Alps , the whole character of Italian politics was changed . The governments of the Peninsula cease to form an independent system . Drawn from their old We have ...
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... talent which blank verse exhibits to the greatest advantage , and was certainly the best writer of heroic rhyme in our ... talents than those which he possessed ; that , in aspiring to emulate it , he was wasting , in a hopeless attempt ...
... talent which blank verse exhibits to the greatest advantage , and was certainly the best writer of heroic rhyme in our ... talents than those which he possessed ; that , in aspiring to emulate it , he was wasting , in a hopeless attempt ...
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... talent for description , or a talent for narration , may , for a time , pass for dramatic genius . Dryden was an incomparable reasoner in verse . He was conscious of his power ; he was proud of it ; and the authors of the Rehearsal ...
... talent for description , or a talent for narration , may , for a time , pass for dramatic genius . Dryden was an incomparable reasoner in verse . He was conscious of his power ; he was proud of it ; and the authors of the Rehearsal ...
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