"When we read, let our imagination kindle at their charms; when we write, let our judgment shut them out of our thoughts; treat even Homer himself, as his royal admirer was treated by the cynic; bid him stand aside, nor shade our Composition from the beams of our own genius; for nothing Original can rise, nothing immortal, can ripen, in any other sun."
Conjectures on Original Composition
At least 12 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1759, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1774, 1778, 1796, 1798).<br>
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See <u>Conjectures on Original Composition. In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison.</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, in The Strand; and R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1759). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T140626">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=h1IJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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