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" ... works with the exactness of a Flemish pencil, those bold and daring strokes of fancy, those numbers so hazardously ventured upon, and so happily finished, the matter so compressed, and yet so clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet... "
Eighteenth Century Studies: Essays - Page 129
by Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 386 pages
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 44

1804 - 572 pages
...and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short, it is not his least praise that he is never guilty of those...that he did not judge by a borrowed standard, or from rulej laid down by critics, but that he was qualified to do it by his ewn native powers, and his great...
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The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, by W. Hayley ..., Volume 3

William Cowper - 1806 - 490 pages
...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect? In short, it is not his least praise that he is never guilty of those...native powers, and his great superiority of genius. For he that wrote so much, and so fast, would through inadvertence and hurry, unavoidably have departed...
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The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr: With ..., Volume 3

William Hayley - 1806 - 484 pages
...and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short, it is not his least praise that he is never guilty of those faults as a writer, I which he lays to the charge of others. A proof that he did not judge by a borrowed standard, or from...
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The life and letters of William Cowper, Volume 3

William Cowper - 1809 - 486 pages
...and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short, it is not his least praise that he is never guilty of those faults as a writer, which he lays fo the charge of others. A proof that he did not judge by a borrowed standard^ or from rules laid down...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 14

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short it is not his least praise, that he is never guilty of those...native powers, and his great superiority of genius V The superiority of his genius, indeed, is so obvious from even a slight perusal of his works, that...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 14

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short it is not his least praise, that lie - \" The superiority of his genius, indeed, is so obvious from even a slight perusal of liis works, that...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Mallet, Akenside ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short it is not his least praise, that he is never guilty of those...as a writer which he lays to the charge of others. Л proof that he did not judge by a borrowed standard, or from rules laid down by critics, but that...
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The life and letters of William Cowper, Volume 3

William Cowper, William Hayley - 1812 - 456 pages
...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect? In short, it is not his least praise, that he is never guilty of those...native powers, and his great superiority of genius. For he that wrote so much, and so fast, would through inadvertence and hurry unavoidably have departed...
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The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq: With Remarks on ..., Volume 3

William Hayley - 1812 - 464 pages
...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect? In short, it is not his least praise, that he is never guilty of those...native powers, and his great superiority of genius. For he that wrote so much, and so fast, would through inadvertence and hurry unavoidably have departed...
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Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and ...

Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on and yet with such a beautiful effect? In short, it is not his least praise, that he is never guilty of those...standard, or from rules laid down by critics, but that lie was qualified to do it by his own native powers, and his great superiority of genins. For he that...
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