Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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Page 23
... scarcely more difficult to push a stone out from the pyramids with the bare hand , than to alter a word , or the position of a word , in Milton or Shakspeare , ( in their most important works at least ) without making the author say ...
... scarcely more difficult to push a stone out from the pyramids with the bare hand , than to alter a word , or the position of a word , in Milton or Shakspeare , ( in their most important works at least ) without making the author say ...
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... scarcely have been " Of old things all are over old , Of good things none are good enough : - We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff . I too will have my kings , that take From me the sign of life and death ...
... scarcely have been " Of old things all are over old , Of good things none are good enough : - We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff . I too will have my kings , that take From me the sign of life and death ...
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... scarcely , I think , deny their belief , not only that the " genus irritabile " would be found to include many other species besides that of bards ; but that the irritability of trade would soon reduce the re- sentments of poets into ...
... scarcely , I think , deny their belief , not only that the " genus irritabile " would be found to include many other species besides that of bards ; but that the irritability of trade would soon reduce the re- sentments of poets into ...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. chiefly perhaps , as our objects are different . It could scarcely indeed happen otherwise , from the advantage I have enjoyed of frequent con- versation with him on a subject to which a poem of his own first ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. chiefly perhaps , as our objects are different . It could scarcely indeed happen otherwise , from the advantage I have enjoyed of frequent con- versation with him on a subject to which a poem of his own first ...
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... scarcely less absurd than to say , that a weather - cock had acquired a habit of turning to the east , from the wind having been so long in that quar- ter : for if it be replied , that we must take in the circumstance of life , what ...
... scarcely less absurd than to say , that a weather - cock had acquired a habit of turning to the east , from the wind having been so long in that quar- ter : for if it be replied , that we must take in the circumstance of life , what ...
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