Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... published a small volume of juvenile poems . They were received with a degree of favor , which , young as I was , I well knew , was bestowed on them not so much for any positive merit , as because they were consi- dered buds of hope ...
... published a small volume of juvenile poems . They were received with a degree of favor , which , young as I was , I well knew , was bestowed on them not so much for any positive merit , as because they were consi- dered buds of hope ...
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... published nothing , with my name , which could by any possibility have come be- fore the board of anonymous criticism . Even the three or four poems , printed with the works of a friend , as far as they were censured at all , were ...
... published nothing , with my name , which could by any possibility have come be- fore the board of anonymous criticism . Even the three or four poems , printed with the works of a friend , as far as they were censured at all , were ...
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... . " Plin . Epist . Lib . I. 66 I had just entered on my seventeenth year , when the sonnets of Mr. Bowles , twenty in number , and just then published in a quarto pamphlet , were first made known and pre- sented to 13.
... . " Plin . Epist . Lib . I. 66 I had just entered on my seventeenth year , when the sonnets of Mr. Bowles , twenty in number , and just then published in a quarto pamphlet , were first made known and pre- sented to 13.
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... published some time before the son- mets of Mr. Bowles ; but I was not familiar with it till many years afterwards . The vein of Satire which runs through that excellent poem , together with the sombre hue of its re- ligious opinions ...
... published some time before the son- mets of Mr. Bowles ; but I was not familiar with it till many years afterwards . The vein of Satire which runs through that excellent poem , together with the sombre hue of its re- ligious opinions ...
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... publish ; and it is but a debt of justice to my- self and my friends to notice , that the first course of lectures , which differed from the following courses only , by occa- sionally varying the illustrations of the same thoughts , was ...
... publish ; and it is but a debt of justice to my- self and my friends to notice , that the first course of lectures , which differed from the following courses only , by occa- sionally varying the illustrations of the same thoughts , was ...
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