Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... thought suggested itself ( to which of us I do not recol- lect ) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts . In the one , the incidents and agents were to be , in part at least , supernatu- A a ral ; and the excellence aimed ...
... thought suggested itself ( to which of us I do not recol- lect ) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts . In the one , the incidents and agents were to be , in part at least , supernatu- A a ral ; and the excellence aimed ...
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... thought ; had they indeed contained nothing more than what is found in the paro- dies and pretended imitations of them ; they must have sunk at once , a dead weight , into the slough of oblivion , and have dragged the preface along with ...
... thought ; had they indeed contained nothing more than what is found in the paro- dies and pretended imitations of them ; they must have sunk at once , a dead weight , into the slough of oblivion , and have dragged the preface along with ...
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... thoughts , and emotions of the poet's own mind . The poet , described in ideal perfection , brings the whole soul of man into activity , with the subordination of its faculties to each other , according to their relative worth and ...
... thoughts , and emotions of the poet's own mind . The poet , described in ideal perfection , brings the whole soul of man into activity , with the subordination of its faculties to each other , according to their relative worth and ...
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... thought , do better , than keep before me the earliest work of the greatest genius , that perhaps human nature has yet produced , our myriad - minded * Shakspear . I mean the " Venus and Adonis , " and the " Lucrece ; " works which give ...
... thought , do better , than keep before me the earliest work of the greatest genius , that perhaps human nature has yet produced , our myriad - minded * Shakspear . I mean the " Venus and Adonis , " and the " Lucrece ; " works which give ...
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... thoughts , or permitted by the propriety of preserving a sense of me- lody predominant . The delight in richness and sweetness of sound , even to a faulty excess , if it be evidently original , and not the result of an easily imitable ...
... thoughts , or permitted by the propriety of preserving a sense of me- lody predominant . The delight in richness and sweetness of sound , even to a faulty excess , if it be evidently original , and not the result of an easily imitable ...
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