Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... Sonnet 33rd . " Not mine own fears , nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come- * ** * The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd , And the sad augurs mock their own presage ; Incertainties now crown themselves ...
... Sonnet 33rd . " Not mine own fears , nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come- * ** * The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd , And the sad augurs mock their own presage ; Incertainties now crown themselves ...
Page 64
... sonnet- " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine , And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous descant join , Or cheerful fields resume their green attire ; These ears alas ! for other notes repine ...
... sonnet- " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine , And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous descant join , Or cheerful fields resume their green attire ; These ears alas ! for other notes repine ...
Page 76
... Sonnet , the reader's sympathy with his praise or blame of the different parts is taken for granted rather perhaps too easily . He has not , at least , attempted to win or compel it by argumentative analysis . In my conception at least ...
... Sonnet , the reader's sympathy with his praise or blame of the different parts is taken for granted rather perhaps too easily . He has not , at least , attempted to win or compel it by argumentative analysis . In my conception at least ...
Page 77
... sonnet is distinguished from the ordinary lan- guage of men by the epithet to morning . ( For we will set aside , at present , the consideration , that the particular word " smiling " is hack- neyed , and ( as it involves a sort of ...
... sonnet is distinguished from the ordinary lan- guage of men by the epithet to morning . ( For we will set aside , at present , the consideration , that the particular word " smiling " is hack- neyed , and ( as it involves a sort of ...
Page 93
... sonnet ; those sentences ap- pear to have been rather courtesies of modesty , than actual limitations of his system . Yet so groundless does this system appear on a close examination ; and so strange and * over - whelm- * I had in my ...
... sonnet ; those sentences ap- pear to have been rather courtesies of modesty , than actual limitations of his system . Yet so groundless does this system appear on a close examination ; and so strange and * over - whelm- * I had in my ...
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