Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate . " There's no Philosopher but sees , That rage and fear are one disease , Tho ' that may burn , and this may freeze , They're both alike the ague . " MAD OX ...
... Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate . " There's no Philosopher but sees , That rage and fear are one disease , Tho ' that may burn , and this may freeze , They're both alike the ague . " MAD OX ...
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... the blame of his irritability . How then are we to explain the easy cre- dence generally given to this charge , if the charge itself be not , as we have endeavoured to show , supported by experience ? This seems to me 36.
... the blame of his irritability . How then are we to explain the easy cre- dence generally given to this charge , if the charge itself be not , as we have endeavoured to show , supported by experience ? This seems to me 36.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. show , supported by experience ? This seems to me of no very difficult solution . In what- ever country literature is widely diffused , there will be many who mistake an intense desire ... experience? This seems ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. show , supported by experience ? This seems to me of no very difficult solution . In what- ever country literature is widely diffused , there will be many who mistake an intense desire ... experience? This seems ...
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... experienced the same sen- sations myself , and felt almost as if I had been newly couched , when by Mr. Wordsworth's conversation , I had been induced to re - examine with impartial strictness Grey's celebrated elegy . I had long before ...
... experienced the same sen- sations myself , and felt almost as if I had been newly couched , when by Mr. Wordsworth's conversation , I had been induced to re - examine with impartial strictness Grey's celebrated elegy . I had long before ...
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... experience ( and I should not need documents in abundance to prove my words , if I added ) a tried experience of twenty years , has taught me , that the original sin of my character consists in a careless indifference to public opinion ...
... experience ( and I should not need documents in abundance to prove my words , if I added ) a tried experience of twenty years , has taught me , that the original sin of my character consists in a careless indifference to public opinion ...
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