Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... human being who , from whatever source of delusion , has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency . For the second class , subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ; the characters and incidents were to be such , as ...
... human being who , from whatever source of delusion , has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency . For the second class , subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ; the characters and incidents were to be such , as ...
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... human nature has yet produced , our myriad - minded * Shakspear . I mean the " Venus and Adonis , " and the " Lucrece ; " works which give at once strong promises of the strength , and yet obvious * Ang pugioves , a phrase which I have ...
... human nature has yet produced , our myriad - minded * Shakspear . I mean the " Venus and Adonis , " and the " Lucrece ; " works which give at once strong promises of the strength , and yet obvious * Ang pugioves , a phrase which I have ...
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... human knowledge , human thoughts , human passions , emotions , language . In Shakspeare's poems , the creative power , and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace . Each in its ex- cess of strength seems to threaten the ...
... human knowledge , human thoughts , human passions , emotions , language . In Shakspeare's poems , the creative power , and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace . Each in its ex- cess of strength seems to threaten the ...
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... human character and passion , the one Proteus of the fire and the flood ; the other attracts all forms and things to himself , into the unity of his own Ideal . All things and modes of action shape themselves anew in the being of MILTON ...
... human character and passion , the one Proteus of the fire and the flood ; the other attracts all forms and things to himself , into the unity of his own Ideal . All things and modes of action shape themselves anew in the being of MILTON ...
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... human mind ; and at once contains the trophies of its past , and the weapons of its future con- quests . Animadverte , quam sit ab impro- prietate verborum pronum hominibus prolabi in errores circa res ! " HOBBES : Exam . et Ex- mend ...
... human mind ; and at once contains the trophies of its past , and the weapons of its future con- quests . Animadverte , quam sit ab impro- prietate verborum pronum hominibus prolabi in errores circa res ! " HOBBES : Exam . et Ex- mend ...
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