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On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts/The English Mail-coach/The Last Days of Immanuel Kant/Recollections (De Quincey, Vol 2)

Thomas de Quincey

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889. Excerpt: ... RECOLLECTIONS OF CHARLES LAMB. AMONGST the earliest literary acquaintances I made was that with the inimitable Charles Lamb: inimitable, I say, but that word is too limited in its meaning; for, as is said of Milton in that well-known life of him attached to all common editions of the "Paradise Lost" (Fenton's, I think), "in both senses he was above imitation." Yes; it was as impossible to the moral nature of Charles Lamb that he should imitate another, as, in an intellectual sense, it was impossible that any other should successfully imitate him. To write with patience even, not to say genially, for Charles Lamb it was a very necessity of his constitution that he should write from his own wayward nature; and that nature was so peculiar, that no other man, the ablest at mimicry, could counterfeit its voice. But let me not anticipate; for these were opinions about Lamb which I had not when I first knew him, nor could have Lad by any reasonable title. "Elia," be it observed, the exquisite "Elia," was then unborn; Lamb had as yet published nothing to the world which proclaimed him in his proper character of a most original man of genius;i at best, i "Man of genius"--"man of talent." I have, in a former number of this journal, laid down what I conceive to be the true ground of distinction between genius and talent; which lies mainly in this--that genius is intellectual power impregnated with the moral nature, and expresses a synthesis of the active in man with his original organic capacity of pleasure and pain. Hence the very word genius, because the genial nature in its whole organization is expressed and involved in it Hence, also, arises the reason that genius is always peculiar and individual; one man's genius nexer exactfy repeats another man's. But talen...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts/The English Mail-coach/The Last Days of Immanuel Kant/Recollections (De Quincey, Vol 2). To get started finding On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts/The English Mail-coach/The Last Days of Immanuel Kant/Recollections (De Quincey, Vol 2), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2012

ISBN: 1154290689

Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889. Excerpt: ... RECOLLECTIONS OF CHARLES LAMB. AMONGST the earliest literary acquaintances I made was that with the inimitable Charles Lamb: inimitable, I say, but that word is too limited in its meaning; for, as is said of Milton in that well-known life of him attached to all common editions of the "Paradise Lost" (Fenton's, I think), "in both senses he was above imitation." Yes; it was as impossible to the moral nature of Charles Lamb that he should imitate another, as, in an intellectual sense, it was impossible that any other should successfully imitate him. To write with patience even, not to say genially, for Charles Lamb it was a very necessity of his constitution that he should write from his own wayward nature; and that nature was so peculiar, that no other man, the ablest at mimicry, could counterfeit its voice. But let me not anticipate; for these were opinions about Lamb which I had not when I first knew him, nor could have Lad by any reasonable title. "Elia," be it observed, the exquisite "Elia," was then unborn; Lamb had as yet published nothing to the world which proclaimed him in his proper character of a most original man of genius;i at best, i "Man of genius"--"man of talent." I have, in a former number of this journal, laid down what I conceive to be the true ground of distinction between genius and talent; which lies mainly in this--that genius is intellectual power impregnated with the moral nature, and expresses a synthesis of the active in man with his original organic capacity of pleasure and pain. Hence the very word genius, because the genial nature in its whole organization is expressed and involved in it Hence, also, arises the reason that genius is always peculiar and individual; one man's genius nexer exactfy repeats another man's. But talen...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts/The English Mail-coach/The Last Days of Immanuel Kant/Recollections (De Quincey, Vol 2). To get started finding On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts/The English Mail-coach/The Last Days of Immanuel Kant/Recollections (De Quincey, Vol 2), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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