...fiction. As Sir Joshua Reynolds says, " every opportunity should be taken to discountenance that false and vulgar opinion that rules are the fetters of genius...to men of no genius, as that armour, which upon the strong is an ornament and defence, upon the weak becomes a load, and cripples the body which it was...

...as he has commenced them. Every opportunity, therefore, should be taken to discountenance that false and vulgar opinion, that rules are the fetters of...men of no genius ; as that armour, which upon the strong is an ornament and a defence, upon the weak and mis-shapen, becomes a load, and cripples the...