Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... moral or intellectual , ought to be the ultimate end , yet this will distinguish the cha- racter of the author , not the class to which the work belongs . Blest indeed is that state of society , in which the immediate purpose would be ...
... moral or intellectual , ought to be the ultimate end , yet this will distinguish the cha- racter of the author , not the class to which the work belongs . Blest indeed is that state of society , in which the immediate purpose would be ...
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... moral account . Instead of doing as Ariosto , and as , still more offensively , Wieland has done , instead of degrading and deforming passion into appetite , the trials of love into the struggles of concupiscence ; Shakspeare has here ...
... moral account . Instead of doing as Ariosto , and as , still more offensively , Wieland has done , instead of degrading and deforming passion into appetite , the trials of love into the struggles of concupiscence ; Shakspeare has here ...
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... the tongue , Which SHAKSPEARE spake ; the faith and morals hold , Which MILTON held . In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood , have titles manifold ! WORDSWORth . CHAPTER XVI . Striking points of difference between the Poets ...
... the tongue , Which SHAKSPEARE spake ; the faith and morals hold , Which MILTON held . In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood , have titles manifold ! WORDSWORth . CHAPTER XVI . Striking points of difference between the Poets ...
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... moral effect , which persons of elevated rank and of superior refinement oftentimes derive from a happy imitation of the rude unpolished man- ners and discourse of their inferiors . For the pleasure so derived may be traced to three ex ...
... moral effect , which persons of elevated rank and of superior refinement oftentimes derive from a happy imitation of the rude unpolished man- ners and discourse of their inferiors . For the pleasure so derived may be traced to three ex ...
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... to make us laugh by wry faces , accidents of jargon , slang phrases for the day , or the clothing of common - place morals in metaphors drawn from the shops poetry must be clothed with generic attributes , with the 41.
... to make us laugh by wry faces , accidents of jargon , slang phrases for the day , or the clothing of common - place morals in metaphors drawn from the shops poetry must be clothed with generic attributes , with the 41.
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