Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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Yet seem'd it winter still , and you away , As with your shadow I with these did play ! Scarcely less sure , or if a less valuable , not less indispensable mark Γονίμε μέν Ποιητα - οςις ρημα γενναιον λακου , will the imagery supply ...
Yet seem'd it winter still , and you away , As with your shadow I with these did play ! Scarcely less sure , or if a less valuable , not less indispensable mark Γονίμε μέν Ποιητα - οςις ρημα γενναιον λακου , will the imagery supply ...
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... same impetuous vigour of thought , and diverging and contracting with the same activity of the assimilative and of the modifying faculties ; and with a yet larger dis1 play , a yet wider range of knowledge and reflection B b 3 21.
... same impetuous vigour of thought , and diverging and contracting with the same activity of the assimilative and of the modifying faculties ; and with a yet larger dis1 play , a yet wider range of knowledge and reflection B b 3 21.
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1 play , a yet wider range of knowledge and reflection ; and lastly , with the same perfect dominion , often domination , over the whole world of language . What then shall we say ? even this ; that Shakspeare , no mere child of nature ...
1 play , a yet wider range of knowledge and reflection ; and lastly , with the same perfect dominion , often domination , over the whole world of language . What then shall we say ? even this ; that Shakspeare , no mere child of nature ...
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... the scanty companies of a country stage the same player pops backwards and forwards , in order to prevent the appearance of empty spaces , in the proces, sion of Macbeth , or Henry VIIIth . But what assistance to the poet ...
... the scanty companies of a country stage the same player pops backwards and forwards , in order to prevent the appearance of empty spaces , in the proces, sion of Macbeth , or Henry VIIIth . But what assistance to the poet ...
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... so for its perfection in this species of diction , may be seen in LAMB's Dramatic Specimens , & c . a work of various interest from the nature of the selections themselves ( all from the plays of Shakspeare's contemporaries ) and ...
... so for its perfection in this species of diction , may be seen in LAMB's Dramatic Specimens , & c . a work of various interest from the nature of the selections themselves ( all from the plays of Shakspeare's contemporaries ) and ...
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