Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... Language , such as blood - stained , terror - stricken , self - applauding : or when a new epithet , or one found in books only , is hazarded , that it , at least , be one word , not two words made one by mere virtue of the printer's ...
... Language , such as blood - stained , terror - stricken , self - applauding : or when a new epithet , or one found in books only , is hazarded , that it , at least , be one word , not two words made one by mere virtue of the printer's ...
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... language , though indeed partly owing to a wrong choice of subjects , and the desire of giving a poetic colouring to abstract and metaphysical truths , in which a new world then seemed to open upon me , did yet , in part likewise ...
... language , though indeed partly owing to a wrong choice of subjects , and the desire of giving a poetic colouring to abstract and metaphysical truths , in which a new world then seemed to open upon me , did yet , in part likewise ...
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... language a GRECIAN ) had been my patron and protector . I refer to Dr. Middleton , the truly learned , and every way excellent Bishop of Calcutta : " Qui laudibus amplis Ingenium celebrare meum , calamumque solebat , Calcar agens animo ...
... language a GRECIAN ) had been my patron and protector . I refer to Dr. Middleton , the truly learned , and every way excellent Bishop of Calcutta : " Qui laudibus amplis Ingenium celebrare meum , calamumque solebat , Calcar agens animo ...
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... language of poetry . On this last point , I had occasion to render my own thoughts gradually more and more plain to myself , by frequent amicable disputés concerning Darwin's BOTANIC GARDEN , which , for some years , was greatly ...
... language of poetry . On this last point , I had occasion to render my own thoughts gradually more and more plain to myself , by frequent amicable disputés concerning Darwin's BOTANIC GARDEN , which , for some years , was greatly ...
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... language , had been kept up by , if it did not wholly arise from , the custom of writing Latin verses , and the great importance at- tached to these exercises , in our public schools . Whatever might have been the case in the fif ...
... language , had been kept up by , if it did not wholly arise from , the custom of writing Latin verses , and the great importance at- tached to these exercises , in our public schools . Whatever might have been the case in the fif ...
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