Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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... style , with an insight not less clear , than I at present pos- sess . My judgment was stronger , than were my powers of realizing its dictates ; and the faults of my language , though indeed partly owing to a wrong choice of subjects ...
... style , with an insight not less clear , than I at present pos- sess . My judgment was stronger , than were my powers of realizing its dictates ; and the faults of my language , though indeed partly owing to a wrong choice of subjects ...
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... ; an figuræ essent mera ornatura et orationis fucus : vel sanguinis e materiæ ipsius corde effluentis rubor quidam nativus et incalescentia genuina ; " removed all obstacles to the appreciation of excellence in style without diminishing 11.
... ; an figuræ essent mera ornatura et orationis fucus : vel sanguinis e materiæ ipsius corde effluentis rubor quidam nativus et incalescentia genuina ; " removed all obstacles to the appreciation of excellence in style without diminishing 11.
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... style without diminishing my delight . That I was thus prepared for the perusal of Mr. Bowles's sonnets and earlier poems , at once increased their influence , and my enthusiasm . The great works of past ages seem to a young man things ...
... style without diminishing my delight . That I was thus prepared for the perusal of Mr. Bowles's sonnets and earlier poems , at once increased their influence , and my enthusiasm . The great works of past ages seem to a young man things ...
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... style of poetry , so tender , and yet so manly , so natural and real , and yet so dignified , and harmonious , as the sonnets , & c . of Mr. Bowles ! Well were it for me perhaps , had I never relapsed into the same * The Christ Hospital ...
... style of poetry , so tender , and yet so manly , so natural and real , and yet so dignified , and harmonious , as the sonnets , & c . of Mr. Bowles ! Well were it for me perhaps , had I never relapsed into the same * The Christ Hospital ...
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... style of poetry , which I have characterised above , as translations of prose thoughts into poetic language , had been kept up by , if it did not wholly arise from , the custom of writing Latin verses , and the great importance at ...
... style of poetry , which I have characterised above , as translations of prose thoughts into poetic language , had been kept up by , if it did not wholly arise from , the custom of writing Latin verses , and the great importance at ...
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