Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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Page 64
... the language of these lines does in no respect differ from that of prose . " An idealist defending his system by the fact , that when asleep we often believe ourselves 7 awake , was well answered by his plain neigh- 64.
... the language of these lines does in no respect differ from that of prose . " An idealist defending his system by the fact , that when asleep we often believe ourselves 7 awake , was well answered by his plain neigh- 64.
Page 65
... believe ourselves asleep ? " - Things identical must be convertible . The preceding passage seems to rest on a similar sophism . For the question is not , whether there may not occur in prose an order of words , which would be equally ...
... believe ourselves asleep ? " - Things identical must be convertible . The preceding passage seems to rest on a similar sophism . For the question is not , whether there may not occur in prose an order of words , which would be equally ...
Page 86
... believe , a man now living , who has from his own inward experience a clearer intuition , than Mr. Wordsworth himself , that the last men- tioned are the true sources of genial discrimina- tion . Through the same process and by the same ...
... believe , a man now living , who has from his own inward experience a clearer intuition , than Mr. Wordsworth himself , that the last men- tioned are the true sources of genial discrimina- tion . Through the same process and by the same ...
Page 94
... believe that the poet did ever himself adopt it in the unqualified sense , in which his ex- pressions have been understood by others , and which indeed according to all the common laws of interpretation they seem to bear . What then did ...
... believe that the poet did ever himself adopt it in the unqualified sense , in which his ex- pressions have been understood by others , and which indeed according to all the common laws of interpretation they seem to bear . What then did ...
Page 125
... believe or apprehend . But that lines , the sense of which I had analysed and found consonant with all the best convictions of my understand- ing ; and the imagery and diction of which had collected round those convictions my noblest as ...
... believe or apprehend . But that lines , the sense of which I had analysed and found consonant with all the best convictions of my understand- ing ; and the imagery and diction of which had collected round those convictions my noblest as ...
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