Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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Page 15
... beauty ; till his wife elated by her husband's praises , modestly acknowledged , that she herself had been his constant model . In the Venus and Adonis , this proof of poetic power exists even to excess . It is throughout as if a ...
... beauty ; till his wife elated by her husband's praises , modestly acknowledged , that she herself had been his constant model . In the Venus and Adonis , this proof of poetic power exists even to excess . It is throughout as if a ...
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... the charm and peculiar worth of the picture consists , not so much in the specific objects which it conveys to the understanding in a visual language formed by the substitution of figures for words , as in the beauty and harmony of 26.
... the charm and peculiar worth of the picture consists , not so much in the specific objects which it conveys to the understanding in a visual language formed by the substitution of figures for words , as in the beauty and harmony of 26.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. for words , as in the beauty and harmony of the colours , lines and expression , with which the objects are represented . Hence novelty of sub- ject was rather avoided than sought for . Su- perior excellence in ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. for words , as in the beauty and harmony of the colours , lines and expression , with which the objects are represented . Hence novelty of sub- ject was rather avoided than sought for . Su- perior excellence in ...
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... beauty to the persons of his drama . In the " Idiot Boy , " indeed , the mother's character is not so much a real and native product of a " situation where the essential passions of the heart find a better soil , in which they can ...
... beauty to the persons of his drama . In the " Idiot Boy , " indeed , the mother's character is not so much a real and native product of a " situation where the essential passions of the heart find a better soil , in which they can ...
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... beauty , assisted in recalling them . The other is , that the idiocy of the boy is so evenly balanced by the folly of the mother , as to present to the general reader rather a laughable burlesque on the blindness of anile dotage , than ...
... beauty , assisted in recalling them . The other is , that the idiocy of the boy is so evenly balanced by the folly of the mother , as to present to the general reader rather a laughable burlesque on the blindness of anile dotage , than ...
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