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The Task has fewer blemishes than The Seasons ; but it has not the same capital excellence , the ' unbought grace ' of poetry , the power of moving and infusing the warmth of the author's mind into that of the reader .
The Task has fewer blemishes than The Seasons ; but it has not the same capital excellence , the ' unbought grace ' of poetry , the power of moving and infusing the warmth of the author's mind into that of the reader .
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Whether the excellence of Gulliver's Travels is in the conception or the excecution , is of little consequence ; the power is somewhere , and it is a power that has moved the world . The power is not that of big words , and vaunting ...
Whether the excellence of Gulliver's Travels is in the conception or the excecution , is of little consequence ; the power is somewhere , and it is a power that has moved the world . The power is not that of big words , and vaunting ...
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No : he who would be great in the eyes of others must first learn to be nothing in his own . The love of fame , as it enters at times into his mind , is only another name for the love of excellence ; or it is the ambition to ...
No : he who would be great in the eyes of others must first learn to be nothing in his own . The love of fame , as it enters at times into his mind , is only another name for the love of excellence ; or it is the ambition to ...
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