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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 Voices of Prose

William Stafford, Frederick H. Candelaria - 1966 - 544 pages
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A Literary History of England, Volume 3

Albert Croll Baugh - 1980 - 1605 pages
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Literary Criticism in the Age of Johnson

Aisso Bosker - 1953 - 372 pages
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Dictionary of World Literary Terms, Forms, Technique, Criticism

Joseph Twadell Shipley - 1970 - 490 pages
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A History of English Literature: i.e. v. 2 1700-1832

Marco Mincoff - 1970 - 442 pages
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition

Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 pages
...the wonder of posterity.' The second class of geniuses, differing in kind rather than in excellence, 'are those that have formed themselves by rules, and...talents to the corrections and restraints of art'; among them are numbered Plato, Virgil, and Milton. With natural genius, Addison associates other concepts...
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Literary History of England

G. Sherburn, Donald F. Bond - 1959 - 488 pages
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Eighteenth Century Poetry & Prose

Louis Ignatius Bredvold, Alan Dugald McKillop, Lois Whitney, John Marshall Bullitt - 1973 - 1538 pages
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The Ascendancy of Taste: The Achievement of Joseph and Thomas Warton

Joan H. Pittock - 1973 - 252 pages
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Neo-classical Criticism, 1660-1800

Ir醗ne·Simon - 1971 - 228 pages
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