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Quotation, like much better t...

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

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Candour is the brightest gem ...

Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

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A work, however, should be ju...

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

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The art of quotation requires...

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.

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The greater part of our write...

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

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All this is labour which neve...

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

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Every work of Genius is tinct...

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

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Education, however indispensa...

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

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Miscellanists are the most po...

Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.

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To think, and to feel, consti...

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

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Self-love is a principle of a...

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

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A poet is a painter of the so...

A poet is a painter of the soul.

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The poet and the painter are ...

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

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Those who never quote, in ret...

Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

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It is generally supposed that...

It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!

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Bayle, when writing on "Comet...

Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities!

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The art of meditation may be ...

The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.

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The delights of reading impar...

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

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After the golden age of Latin...

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

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To bend and prostrate oneself...

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

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