Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... things of every day , and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural , by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of cus- tom , and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us ; an inexhausti ...
... things of every day , and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural , by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of cus- tom , and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us ; an inexhausti ...
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... things , which they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of thought ; had they indeed contained nothing more than ...
... things , which they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of thought ; had they indeed contained nothing more than ...
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... thing can permanently please , which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so , and not otherwise . If metre be superadded , all other parts must be made consonant with it . They must be such , as to justify the perpetual and ...
... thing can permanently please , which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so , and not otherwise . If metre be superadded , all other parts must be made consonant with it . They must be such , as to justify the perpetual and ...
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... things it burns , As we our food into our nature change . From their gross matter she abstracts their forms , And draws a kind of quintessence from things ; Which to her proper nature she transforms To bear them light , on her celestial ...
... things it burns , As we our food into our nature change . From their gross matter she abstracts their forms , And draws a kind of quintessence from things ; Which to her proper nature she transforms To bear them light , on her celestial ...
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... thing . Hence it is , that from the perpetual activity of attention required on the part of the reader ; from the rapid flow , the quick change , and the playful nature of the thoughts and images ; and above all from the alienation ...
... thing . Hence it is , that from the perpetual activity of attention required on the part of the reader ; from the rapid flow , the quick change , and the playful nature of the thoughts and images ; and above all from the alienation ...
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