American Literary Essays1960 |
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... genius looks forward : the eyes of man are set in his forehead , not in his hindhead : man hopes : genius creates . Whatever talents may be , if the man create not , the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; cinders and smoke there may ...
... genius looks forward : the eyes of man are set in his forehead , not in his hindhead : man hopes : genius creates . Whatever talents may be , if the man create not , the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; cinders and smoke there may ...
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... genius of the ancients . There is one man of genius who has done much for this philosophy of life , whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated ; I mean Emanuel Swedenborg . The most imaginative of men , yet writing with ...
... genius of the ancients . There is one man of genius who has done much for this philosophy of life , whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated ; I mean Emanuel Swedenborg . The most imaginative of men , yet writing with ...
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... genius and luck . The conditions that made the writing of the Twenties what it was cannot be du- plicated today . Hemingway , for example , came along at a peculiar juncture of influences where he had both the luck and the genius to be ...
... genius and luck . The conditions that made the writing of the Twenties what it was cannot be du- plicated today . Hemingway , for example , came along at a peculiar juncture of influences where he had both the luck and the genius to be ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes 18091894 | 5 |
Washington Irving 17831859 | 16 |
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