 | 1925 - 706 strani
...emphasise, were the work of a very young man. They have, he says, " that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world and always suffers to cool as he passes forward/' It was not really the precocity of the Letters which Johnson... | |
 | 1842 - 882 strani
...it may make it clear, or may make it elegant, but how new ? you are confounding words with things. which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward." The second is as follows : " For many years the name of George... | |
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The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world and always suffers to cool as... 
