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" There is another kind of great geniuses which I shall place in a second class, not as I think them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those that have formed themselves... "
The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson - Page 134
by British essayists - 1819
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830

Thomas Keymer, Tom Keymer, Jon Mee - 2004 - 332 pages
...careful to distinguish between those geniuses who 'were never disciplined and broken by Rules of Art' and those 'that have formed themselves by Rules, and submitted...natural Talents to the Corrections and Restraints of Art';10 and it was the former rather than the latter type which fascinated eighteenth-century readers...
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