Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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... knowledge of a poet , by whose works , year after year , I was so enthusiastically delighted and inspired . My earliest acquaintances will not have forgotten the undisciplined eagerness and impetuous zeal , with which I laboured to make ...
... knowledge of a poet , by whose works , year after year , I was so enthusiastically delighted and inspired . My earliest acquaintances will not have forgotten the undisciplined eagerness and impetuous zeal , with which I laboured to make ...
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... knowledge , will , and fate , Fix'd fate , free will , fore - knowledge absolute , And found no end in wandering mazes lost . of my This preposterous pursuit was , beyond doubt , injurious , both to my natural powers , and to . the ...
... knowledge , will , and fate , Fix'd fate , free will , fore - knowledge absolute , And found no end in wandering mazes lost . of my This preposterous pursuit was , beyond doubt , injurious , both to my natural powers , and to . the ...
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... knowledge , the first who com- bined natural thoughts with natural diction ; the first who reconciled the heart with the head . It is true , as I have before mentioned , that from diffidence in my own powers , I for a short ` time ...
... knowledge , the first who com- bined natural thoughts with natural diction ; the first who reconciled the heart with the head . It is true , as I have before mentioned , that from diffidence in my own powers , I for a short ` time ...
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... knowledge of others ) yet still want something of the creative , and self- sufficing power of absolute Genius . For this reason therefore , they are men of commanding genius . While the former rest content between thought and reality ...
... knowledge of others ) yet still want something of the creative , and self- sufficing power of absolute Genius . For this reason therefore , they are men of commanding genius . While the former rest content between thought and reality ...
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... Against Heaven's hand or will , nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bore up and steer'd Right onward . " From others only do we derive our knowledge that Milton D2 85 and the severe calamities, which overwhelmed ...
... Against Heaven's hand or will , nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bore up and steer'd Right onward . " From others only do we derive our knowledge that Milton D2 85 and the severe calamities, which overwhelmed ...
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