Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and OpinionsW. Gowans, 1852 - 804 pages |
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... genius by devoting himself to the lucubrations of foreigners . It is the pleasure of the Writer in Blackwood to give him a vast metaphysical reputation , founded on the Biogra phia Literaria , and , at the end of one of his paragraphs ...
... genius by devoting himself to the lucubrations of foreigners . It is the pleasure of the Writer in Blackwood to give him a vast metaphysical reputation , founded on the Biogra phia Literaria , and , at the end of one of his paragraphs ...
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... genius was ever impelling him to trace things down to their deepest source , and to follow them out in their remotest ramifications . His powers , compounded and balanced as they were , enabled him to do that which he did , and possibly ...
... genius was ever impelling him to trace things down to their deepest source , and to follow them out in their remotest ramifications . His powers , compounded and balanced as they were , enabled him to do that which he did , and possibly ...
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... genius among flies , be- cause he alone can put forth his ideas in the shape of honey , and make the breakfast - table glad . " True or false , all this has little to do with anything that my father has said in the Biographia Literaria ...
... genius among flies , be- cause he alone can put forth his ideas in the shape of honey , and make the breakfast - table glad . " True or false , all this has little to do with anything that my father has said in the Biographia Literaria ...
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... which caused him to neglect the means of vindicating his claim to the originality of the sys- tem , which was the labor of his life and the fruit of his genius . " him " some of the brightest gems in his poetic INTRODUCTION . 23.
... which caused him to neglect the means of vindicating his claim to the originality of the sys- tem , which was the labor of his life and the fruit of his genius . " him " some of the brightest gems in his poetic INTRODUCTION . 23.
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... genius along with it ; but there is another proposition , con- founded by some , perhaps , with the aforesaid , which is true , and ought , in justice and charity , to be borne in mind - I mean that men of “ peculiar intellectual ...
... genius along with it ; but there is another proposition , con- founded by some , perhaps , with the aforesaid , which is true , and ought , in justice and charity , to be borne in mind - I mean that men of “ peculiar intellectual ...
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