Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions ...William Pickering, 1928 - Criticism |
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... persons and characters super- natural , or at least romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of ...
... persons and characters super- natural , or at least romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of ...
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... persons who deny the greatness of Milton ; some ingenious critics have pro- nounced Homer a barbarian , others have decried Shakespeare , many have looked upon Pindar as a " crazy fellow , " and Spenser is thought even by some of the ...
... persons who deny the greatness of Milton ; some ingenious critics have pro- nounced Homer a barbarian , others have decried Shakespeare , many have looked upon Pindar as a " crazy fellow , " and Spenser is thought even by some of the ...
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... persons of elevated rank and of superiour refinement oftentimes derive from a happy imitation of the rude unpolished manners and discourse of their inferiours . For the pleasure so derived may be traced to three exciting causes . The ...
... persons of elevated rank and of superiour refinement oftentimes derive from a happy imitation of the rude unpolished manners and discourse of their inferiours . For the pleasure so derived may be traced to three exciting causes . The ...
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... persons introduced are by no means taken from low or rustic life in the common acceptation of those words ; and it is not less clear , that the sentiments and language , as far as they can be conceived to have been really transferred ...
... persons introduced are by no means taken from low or rustic life in the common acceptation of those words ; and it is not less clear , that the sentiments and language , as far as they can be conceived to have been really transferred ...
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... persons , are attri- butable to causes and circumstances not necessarily connected with " their occupations and abode . " The thoughts , feelings , language , and manners of the shep- herd - farmers in the vales of Cumberland and West ...
... persons , are attri- butable to causes and circumstances not necessarily connected with " their occupations and abode . " The thoughts , feelings , language , and manners of the shep- herd - farmers in the vales of Cumberland and West ...
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