Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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... excitement , which had re- sulted from the energetic fervor of his own spirit in so vividly exhibiting , what it had so accu- rately and profoundly contemplated . I think , I should have conjectured from these poems , that even then the ...
... excitement , which had re- sulted from the energetic fervor of his own spirit in so vividly exhibiting , what it had so accu- rately and profoundly contemplated . I think , I should have conjectured from these poems , that even then the ...
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... excitement , they burst upon us at once in life and in power . " Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye . " Shakspeare's Sonnet 33rd . " Not mine own fears , nor the prophetic soul Of the ...
... excitement , they burst upon us at once in life and in power . " Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye . " Shakspeare's Sonnet 33rd . " Not mine own fears , nor the prophetic soul Of the ...
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... excitement . " For the nature of a man's words , when he is strongly affected by joy , grief , or anger , must necessarily depend on the number and quality of the general truths , con- ceptions and images , and of the words express- ing ...
... excitement . " For the nature of a man's words , when he is strongly affected by joy , grief , or anger , must necessarily depend on the number and quality of the general truths , con- ceptions and images , and of the words express- ing ...
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... excitement , so the metre itself should be accompanied by the natural language of excitement . Secondly , that as these elements are formed into metre artificially , by a voluntary act , with the design and for the purpose of blending ...
... excitement , so the metre itself should be accompanied by the natural language of excitement . Secondly , that as these elements are formed into metre artificially , by a voluntary act , with the design and for the purpose of blending ...
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... excitement . We may in some measure apply to this union the answer of POLIXENES , in the Winter's Tale , to PERDITA'S neglect of the streaked gilly - flowers , because she had heard it said , “ There is an art which in their piedness ...
... excitement . We may in some measure apply to this union the answer of POLIXENES , in the Winter's Tale , to PERDITA'S neglect of the streaked gilly - flowers , because she had heard it said , “ There is an art which in their piedness ...
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