Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and OpinionsW. Gowans, 1852 - 804 pages |
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... productions indeed demand some answering movement on the part of readers , but , in common cases , the motion required is so easy , so much in known ways and smooth well - beaten tracks , that it seems spontaneous , 12 INTRODUCTION .
... productions indeed demand some answering movement on the part of readers , but , in common cases , the motion required is so easy , so much in known ways and smooth well - beaten tracks , that it seems spontaneous , 12 INTRODUCTION .
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... seems spontaneous , and is more like rest than labor . This is the difficulty with which introducers of new thought ... seem least remote from it . To say , with the writer in Blackwood , that he stopped short in the process of unfolding ...
... seems spontaneous , and is more like rest than labor . This is the difficulty with which introducers of new thought ... seem least remote from it . To say , with the writer in Blackwood , that he stopped short in the process of unfolding ...
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... seems to show , that he had not formed into a regular composition any identical views of his own before he read that author's works ; but that the main con- 14 See , in the ninth chapter of this work , the passage beginning , " We had ...
... seems to show , that he had not formed into a regular composition any identical views of his own before he read that author's works ; but that the main con- 14 See , in the ninth chapter of this work , the passage beginning , " We had ...
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... seems to me , materially , to what is borrowed : neither , as far as I can find , after a second careful perusal of the latter , has it any passage translated from Schelling , only a few words here and there being the same as in that ...
... seems to me , materially , to what is borrowed : neither , as far as I can find , after a second careful perusal of the latter , has it any passage translated from Schelling , only a few words here and there being the same as in that ...
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... seems as if he was ever dreaming of blows , and caring for them no more than for the blows of a dream . How much strength of memory may co - exist with weakness , the intellect remaining quite sound in the main , may often be observed ...
... seems as if he was ever dreaming of blows , and caring for them no more than for the blows of a dream . How much strength of memory may co - exist with weakness , the intellect remaining quite sound in the main , may often be observed ...
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