Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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... possess a reality for him , and inspire an actual friendship as of a man for a man . His His very admiration is the wind which fans and feeds his hope . The poems themselves assume the properties of flesh and blood . To recite , to ...
... possess a reality for him , and inspire an actual friendship as of a man for a man . His His very admiration is the wind which fans and feeds his hope . The poems themselves assume the properties of flesh and blood . To recite , to ...
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... possesses the genuine power , and claims the name of essential poetry . Second , that whatever lines can be translated into other words of the same language , without dimi- nution of their significance , either in sense , or association ...
... possesses the genuine power , and claims the name of essential poetry . Second , that whatever lines can be translated into other words of the same language , without dimi- nution of their significance , either in sense , or association ...
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... possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature , like damp hay , they heat and in- flame by co - acervation ; or like bees they be- come restless and irritable through the increased temperature of collected multitudes . Hence ...
... possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature , like damp hay , they heat and in- flame by co - acervation ; or like bees they be- come restless and irritable through the increased temperature of collected multitudes . Hence ...
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... possess more than mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the 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 ...
... possess more than mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the 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 ...
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... possess the reputation of poetic genius , for the actual powers , and original tendencies which constitute it . But men , whose dearest wishes are fixed on objects wholly out of their own power , become in all cases more or less impa ...
... possess the reputation of poetic genius , for the actual powers , and original tendencies which constitute it . But men , whose dearest wishes are fixed on objects wholly out of their own power , become in all cases more or less impa ...
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