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" An Original may be said to be of a vegetable nature; it rises spontaneously from the vital root of Genius; it grows, it is not made... "
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Metaphors: Figures of the Mind

Z. Radman - Philosophy - 1996 - 208 pages
...terms of organic growth. An Original may be said to be of a vegetable nature; it rises sponatneously from the vital root of genius; it grows, it is not made. Imitations are only a sort of manufacture wrought up by those mechanics, and labour, out of pre-existent materials...
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European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism: A Reader in Aesthetic ...

Martin Travers - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 372 pages
...in one famous passage: 'an original may he said to he of a vegetable nature, it rises spontaneously from the vital root of genius; it grows, it is not made: imitations are often a sort of manufacture ivrought up by those mechanics, art and labour, out ofpreexistent materials not...
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The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics

Sara Danius - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 268 pages
...between art and ledine: "An original may be said to be of a vegetable nature; it rises spontaneously from the vital root of genius; it grows, it is not made: imitations are often a sort of manufacture wrought up by those mechanics, art and labour, out of préexistent materials not...
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The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics

Berys Gaut, Paisley Livingston - Art - 2003 - 312 pages
...an undivided applause. An Original may be said to be of a vegetable nature; it rises spontaneously from the vital root of genius; it grows, it is not made: Imitations are often a sort of manufacture wrought up by those mechanics, art and labour, out of pre-existent materials not...
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Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century

Alessa Johns - History - 2003 - 236 pages
...metaphor of Romanticism: "An Grig/naI may be said to be of a vegetable nature; it rises spontaneously from the vital root of Genius; it grows, it is not made: Imitations are often a sort of Manufacture wrought up by those Mechanics, Art, and Labour, out of pre- existent materials...
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The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination

Paul K. Saint-Amour - Law - 2003 - 306 pages
...nihilo and sui generis: An original may be said to be of a vegetable nature: it rises spontaneously from the vital root of genius; it grows, it is not made; imitations are often a sort of manufacture wrought up by those mechanics, art and labor, out of pre-existent materials not...
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A Religious History of the American People

Sydney E. Ahlstrom - Religion - 2004 - 1220 pages
...vegetation. An Original [said Young] may be said to be of a vegetable nature; it rises spontaneously from the vital root of genius; it grows, it is not made; Imitations are often a sort of manufacture, wrought up by those mechanics, art and labor, out of pre-existent materials not...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830

Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 332 pages
...organic and the mechanical: 'An Original may be said to be of a vegetable nature; it rises spontaneously from the vital root of Genius; it grows, it is not made; Imitations are often a sort of Manufacture wrought up by those Mechanics, Art, and Labour, out of préexistent materials not...
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Cognitive Psychology: Key Readings

D. A. Balota, Elizabeth J. Marsh - Cognition - 2004 - 784 pages
...in which he argued that "An Original may be said to be of vegetable nature: it rises spontaneously from the vital root of Genius; it grows, it is not made" (quoted with original italics in Murray, 1989b, p. 28). Hence, an important characteristic of genius...
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Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy

Bruce V. Foltz, Robert Frodeman - Nature - 2004 - 368 pages
...Original Composition that "an Original may be said to be of a vegetable nature, it rises spontaneously, from the vital root of Genius; it grows, it is not made" (Young 1968, p. 552). By the time he wrote the third Critique, Kant, too, followed this eighteenth-century...
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