Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions ...William Pickering, 1928 - Criticism |
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... essays only showed that the critics had not risen ab of the mass of their age ) —but for the purpose of dew that immediate popularity , though it may attend , can a test of , excellence in works of the imagination ; and , ing , if ...
... essays only showed that the critics had not risen ab of the mass of their age ) —but for the purpose of dew that immediate popularity , though it may attend , can a test of , excellence in works of the imagination ; and , ing , if ...
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... essay on the same subject in that beautiful edition of our great poet by which he has rendered so signal and enduring a service to the cause of English literature . Ed . ] 10 [ Aristoph . Ranæ . v . 96-7 . Mr. Frere , in the tone of the ...
... essay on the same subject in that beautiful edition of our great poet by which he has rendered so signal and enduring a service to the cause of English literature . Ed . ] 10 [ Aristoph . Ranæ . v . 96-7 . Mr. Frere , in the tone of the ...
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... Essays , Declamations , Satires , Letters , and other miscellaneous pro- ductions , being Amusements Serious and Comical , calculated for the Meridian of London . I would fain believe , to speak from a mere glance into these volumes ...
... Essays , Declamations , Satires , Letters , and other miscellaneous pro- ductions , being Amusements Serious and Comical , calculated for the Meridian of London . I would fain believe , to speak from a mere glance into these volumes ...
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... essay or pedestrian tour . Metre in itself is simply a stimulant of the attention , and therefore excites the question : Why is the atten- tion to be thus stimulated ? Now the question cannot be answered by the pleasure of the metre ...
... essay or pedestrian tour . Metre in itself is simply a stimulant of the attention , and therefore excites the question : Why is the atten- tion to be thus stimulated ? Now the question cannot be answered by the pleasure of the metre ...
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... Essays , of Memoirs of warriors whose deeds have been eclipsed by modern prowess , it is not surprising that his labours should be forgotten . " His volume of Poems on several Occasions was in a sixth edition in 1770 . As a poet Cotton ...
... Essays , of Memoirs of warriors whose deeds have been eclipsed by modern prowess , it is not surprising that his labours should be forgotten . " His volume of Poems on several Occasions was in a sixth edition in 1770 . As a poet Cotton ...
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