Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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... facts for the after exercise of the judgement ; and instead of awakening by the noblest models the fond and unmixed LOVE and ADMIRATION , which is the natural and graceful temper of early youth ; these nurselings of improved pedagogy ...
... facts for the after exercise of the judgement ; and instead of awakening by the noblest models the fond and unmixed LOVE and ADMIRATION , which is the natural and graceful temper of early youth ; these nurselings of improved pedagogy ...
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... facts , lost all interest in my mind . Poetry ( though for a school - boy of that age , I was above par in English versi- fication , and had already produced two or three compositions which , I may venture to say , with- out reference ...
... facts , lost all interest in my mind . Poetry ( though for a school - boy of that age , I was above par in English versi- fication , and had already produced two or three compositions which , I may venture to say , with- out reference ...
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... Facts - Causes and Occasions of the charge - Its Injustice . I have often thought , that it would be neither uninstructive nor unamusing to analyze , and bring forward into distinct consciousness , that complex feeling , with which ...
... Facts - Causes and Occasions of the charge - Its Injustice . I have often thought , that it would be neither uninstructive nor unamusing to analyze , and bring forward into distinct consciousness , that complex feeling , with which ...
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... fact , and omitting the other half , when it is from their mutual counteraction and neutralization , that the whole truth arises , as a tertiam aliquid different from either . Thus in Dryden's famous line " Great wit " ( which here ...
... fact , and omitting the other half , when it is from their mutual counteraction and neutralization , that the whole truth arises , as a tertiam aliquid different from either . Thus in Dryden's famous line " Great wit " ( which here ...
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... fact , that if in a volume of poetry the critic should find poem or passage which he deems more especially worthless , he is sure to select and reprint it in the review ; by which , on his own grounds , he wastes as much more paper than ...
... fact , that if in a volume of poetry the critic should find poem or passage which he deems more especially worthless , he is sure to select and reprint it in the review ; by which , on his own grounds , he wastes as much more paper than ...
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