Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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Page 15
... gives me additional pleasure , when I can safely refer and attribute it to the con- versation or correspondence of another . My obligations to Mr. Bowles were indeed import- ant , and for radical good . At a very premature age , even ...
... gives me additional pleasure , when I can safely refer and attribute it to the con- versation or correspondence of another . My obligations to Mr. Bowles were indeed import- ant , and for radical good . At a very premature age , even ...
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... gives them the appearance of imitations from the Greek . Whatever relation therefore of cause or impulse Percy's collection of Ballads may bear to the most popular poems of the present day ; yet in the more sustained and elevated style ...
... gives them the appearance of imitations from the Greek . Whatever relation therefore of cause or impulse Percy's collection of Ballads may bear to the most popular poems of the present day ; yet in the more sustained and elevated style ...
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... vale from mountain to mountain give a Palmyra to the desert . But alas ! in times of tumult they are the men des- tined to come forth as the shaping spirit of Ruin , to destroy the wisdom of ages in order to substitute 31.
... vale from mountain to mountain give a Palmyra to the desert . But alas ! in times of tumult they are the men des- tined to come forth as the shaping spirit of Ruin , to destroy the wisdom of ages in order to substitute 31.
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... Give me leave , O SOVEREIGN PUBLIC , and I shall slay this dragon without sword or staff . " For the com- pound would be as the " Pitch , and fat , and hair , which Daniel took , and did seethe them together , and made lumps thereof ...
... Give me leave , O SOVEREIGN PUBLIC , and I shall slay this dragon without sword or staff . " For the com- pound would be as the " Pitch , and fat , and hair , which Daniel took , and did seethe them together , and made lumps thereof ...
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... give a course of lectures on the characteristic merits and defects of English poetry in its dif- ferent æras ; first , from Chaucer to Milton ; second , from Dryden inclusive to Thompson ; and third , from Cowper to the present day ; I ...
... give a course of lectures on the characteristic merits and defects of English poetry in its dif- ferent æras ; first , from Chaucer to Milton ; second , from Dryden inclusive to Thompson ; and third , from Cowper to the present day ; I ...
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