North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 1Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1965 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 35
... genius : witness the French tongue , which owes perhaps all its force and energy to the great Corneille . " Here are many mistakes in a few lines . The arts so far from not knowing any limits , are circumscribed by such known and narrow ...
... genius : witness the French tongue , which owes perhaps all its force and energy to the great Corneille . " Here are many mistakes in a few lines . The arts so far from not knowing any limits , are circumscribed by such known and narrow ...
Page 36
... genius owes every thing to himself . Montaigne and Amyot knew long before Corneille , how to write this language with admirable force and energy , and which we should seek for in vain among modern authors . The genius more or less happy ...
... genius owes every thing to himself . Montaigne and Amyot knew long before Corneille , how to write this language with admirable force and energy , and which we should seek for in vain among modern authors . The genius more or less happy ...
Page 51
... genius be revered upon earth , if it be not under the immortal names of those great men ? I am more disposed than any one , to pass over the little spots that are to be found in the works of Voltaire . The essay upon Universal History ...
... genius be revered upon earth , if it be not under the immortal names of those great men ? I am more disposed than any one , to pass over the little spots that are to be found in the works of Voltaire . The essay upon Universal History ...
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