Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... mere virtue of the printer's hyphen . A language which , like the English , is almost without cases , is indeed in its very genius unfitted for compounds . If a writer , every time a com- pounded word suggests itself to him , would seek ...
... mere virtue of the printer's hyphen . A language which , like the English , is almost without cases , is indeed in its very genius unfitted for compounds . If a writer , every time a com- pounded word suggests itself to him , would seek ...
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... mere abstracts . I mention this , because in referring various lines in Gray to their original in Shakspeare and Milton ; and in the clear perception how completely all the propriety was lost in the transfer ; I was , at that early ...
... mere abstracts . I mention this , because in referring various lines in Gray to their original in Shakspeare and Milton ; and in the clear perception how completely all the propriety was lost in the transfer ; I was , at that early ...
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... significance , either in sense , or association , or in any worthy feeling , are so far vicious in their diction . Be it however observed , that I excluded from the list of wor- thy feelings , the pleasure derived from mere novelty , 22.
... significance , either in sense , or association , or in any worthy feeling , are so far vicious in their diction . Be it however observed , that I excluded from the list of wor- thy feelings , the pleasure derived from mere novelty , 22.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. thy feelings , the pleasure derived from mere novelty , in the reader , and the desire of ex- citing wonderment at his powers in the author . Oftentimes since then , in perusing French tra- gedies , I have ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. thy feelings , the pleasure derived from mere novelty , in the reader , and the desire of ex- citing wonderment at his powers in the author . Oftentimes since then , in perusing French tra- gedies , I have ...
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... mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of others ) yet . still want something of the creative , and self- sufficing power of absolute Genius . For this reason therefore , they are men of commanding ...
... mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of others ) yet . still want something of the creative , and self- sufficing power of absolute Genius . For this reason therefore , they are men of commanding ...
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