...with Professor Stewart, that " his predilection for poetry was rather the result of an entbusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition." The late Dr. RoberUon, the historian, used to say that his prose compositions seemed to him even more...

...far I could judge equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius...of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities. " Among the'subjects on which he was accustomed to: dwell, the characters of the individuals with whom...

...as I could judge, equally vigorous, and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius...of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities. Notwithstanding various reports I heard during the preceding winter, of Burns' predilection for convivial...

...I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius...in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert bis talents." We suspect just as much as this might have been said of every true poet. Another and...

...predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of * genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition....From his conversation I should have pronounced him to he fitted to excel in whatever walk of amhition he had chosen to exert his ahilities. " A mong the...

...I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius...exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From this conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he...

...equally vigorous ; and his predilection v. poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic am! impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition.' " In this year, 1564, Torquato visited his venerable father, now literally " dagf tinni e da fortuna...

...vigorous; nd his predilection for poetry was rather the esult of his own enthusiastic and impassioned 294 temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that...to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition be had chosen to exert his abilities. Among the subjects ton which he was accustomed to dwell, the...

...I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius...of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.' But this, if we mistake not, is at all times the very essence of a truly poetical endowment. Poetry,...

...predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genins exclusively adapted to that species of composition....of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities. In his political principles he was then a Jacobite; which was perhaps owing partly to this, that his...