Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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... answered the same purpose ; and wherein consisted the peculiar fitness of the word in the original text . In our own English compositions , ( at least for the last three years of our school education , ) he showed no mercy to phrase ...
... answered the same purpose ; and wherein consisted the peculiar fitness of the word in the original text . In our own English compositions , ( at least for the last three years of our school education , ) he showed no mercy to phrase ...
Page 13
... answer could be returned , and two faults of the same kind were found in one exercise , the irrevocable verdict fol- lowed ; the exercise was torn up , and another on the same subject to be produced , in addition to the tasks of the day ...
... answer could be returned , and two faults of the same kind were found in one exercise , the irrevocable verdict fol- lowed ; the exercise was torn up , and another on the same subject to be produced , in addition to the tasks of the day ...
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... answer was , that though I had derived peculiar advantages from my school discipline , and though my generat theory of poetry was the same then as now , I had yet experienced the same sen- sations myself , and felt almost as if I had ...
... answer was , that though I had derived peculiar advantages from my school discipline , and though my generat theory of poetry was the same then as now , I had yet experienced the same sen- sations myself , and felt almost as if I had ...
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... answered in a serious elegy on my father's death , ' with the name and habitat of the elegiac Edipus subscribed ; and other ingenius solutions were likewise given ' to the said rebuses -not , as heretofore , by Crito , Philander , A , B ...
... answered in a serious elegy on my father's death , ' with the name and habitat of the elegiac Edipus subscribed ; and other ingenius solutions were likewise given ' to the said rebuses -not , as heretofore , by Crito , Philander , A , B ...
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... answered , in which I could evolve the whole of my reason and feelings , with their requi- site limits and modifications ; not in irrecoverable conversation , where , however strong the reasons might be , the feelings that prompt-- ed ...
... answered , in which I could evolve the whole of my reason and feelings , with their requi- site limits and modifications ; not in irrecoverable conversation , where , however strong the reasons might be , the feelings that prompt-- ed ...
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