Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... previously , in as few words as possible , explain my ideas , first , of a POEM ; and secondly , of POETRY itself , in kind , and in essence . A a 3 1 The office of philosophical disquisition con- sists in just distinction 5.
... previously , in as few words as possible , explain my ideas , first , of a POEM ; and secondly , of POETRY itself , in kind , and in essence . A a 3 1 The office of philosophical disquisition con- sists in just distinction 5.
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... kind , may result from the attainment of the end ; but it is not itself the immediate end . In other works the communication of pleasure may be the immediate purpose ; and though truth , either moral or intellectual , ought to be the ...
... kind , may result from the attainment of the end ; but it is not itself the immediate end . In other works the communication of pleasure may be the immediate purpose ; and though truth , either moral or intellectual , ought to be the ...
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... kind may exist without metre , and even without the contra- distinguishing objects of a poem . The first chapter of Isaiah ( indeed a very large propor- tion of the whole book ) is poetry in the most emphatic sense ; yet it would be not ...
... kind may exist without metre , and even without the contra- distinguishing objects of a poem . The first chapter of Isaiah ( indeed a very large propor- tion of the whole book ) is poetry in the most emphatic sense ; yet it would be not ...
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... kind of quintessence from things ; Which to her proper nature she transforms To bear them light , on her celestial wings . Thus does she , when from individual states She doth abstract the universal kinds ; Which then re - clothed in ...
... kind of quintessence from things ; Which to her proper nature she transforms To bear them light , on her celestial wings . Thus does she , when from individual states She doth abstract the universal kinds ; Which then re - clothed in ...
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... kind of instinc- tive prudence , he will abandon by little and little his weakest posts , till at length he seems to forget that they had ever belonged to him , or affects to consider them at most as accidental and " petty annexments ...
... kind of instinc- tive prudence , he will abandon by little and little his weakest posts , till at length he seems to forget that they had ever belonged to him , or affects to consider them at most as accidental and " petty annexments ...
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