Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... impressions of the senses , do , we well know , render the mind liable to superstition and fanaticism . Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth , minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth in common ...
... impressions of the senses , do , we well know , render the mind liable to superstition and fanaticism . Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth , minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth in common ...
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... impression , I did not hesitate to declare my full conviction , that the consummate judgement of Shakspeare , not only in the general construc- tion , but in all the detail , of his dramas impressed me with greater wonder , than even ...
... impression , I did not hesitate to declare my full conviction , that the consummate judgement of Shakspeare , not only in the general construc- tion , but in all the detail , of his dramas impressed me with greater wonder , than even ...
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... impression on the audience in general was sudden and evident and a number of enlightened and highly educated individuals , who at different times afterwards addressed me on the subject , expressed their wonder , that truth so ob- vious ...
... impression on the audience in general was sudden and evident and a number of enlightened and highly educated individuals , who at different times afterwards addressed me on the subject , expressed their wonder , that truth so ob- vious ...
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... impression on my feelings immediately , and subsequently on my judgement . It was the union of deep feeling with profound thought ; the fine balance of truth in observing with the imaginative faculty in modifying the objects observed ...
... impression on my feelings immediately , and subsequently on my judgement . It was the union of deep feeling with profound thought ; the fine balance of truth in observing with the imaginative faculty in modifying the objects observed ...
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... impressions , formed the basis of all true phsychology ; and any ontolo- gical or metaphysical science not contained in such ( i . e . empirical ) phsychology was but a web of abstractions and generalizations . Of this prolific truth ...
... impressions , formed the basis of all true phsychology ; and any ontolo- gical or metaphysical science not contained in such ( i . e . empirical ) phsychology was but a web of abstractions and generalizations . Of this prolific truth ...
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Biographia Literaria Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Samuel Taylor Coleridge No preview available - 2019 |
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