Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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... former , in the truth and nativeness , both of their thoughts and diction . At the same time that we were studying the Greek tragic poets , he made us read Shakspeare and Milton as lessons : and they were lessons , too , which required ...
... former , in the truth and nativeness , both of their thoughts and diction . At the same time that we were studying the Greek tragic poets , he made us read Shakspeare and Milton as lessons : and they were lessons , too , which required ...
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... former passion for metaphysical investigations , I labored at a solid foundation on which , permanent- ly , to ground my opinions in the component faculties of the human mind itself , and their comparative dignity and importance . Ac ...
... former passion for metaphysical investigations , I labored at a solid foundation on which , permanent- ly , to ground my opinions in the component faculties of the human mind itself , and their comparative dignity and importance . Ac ...
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... former , from DONNE to COWLEY , we find the most fantastic out - of - the - way thoughts , but in the most pure and genuine mother English ; in the latter , the most obvious thoughts in language the most fantastic and arbitrary . Our ...
... former , from DONNE to COWLEY , we find the most fantastic out - of - the - way thoughts , but in the most pure and genuine mother English ; in the latter , the most obvious thoughts in language the most fantastic and arbitrary . Our ...
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... former leaven , and among the many who have done me the honor of putting my poems in the same class with those of my betters , the one or two who have pretended to bring examples of affected simplicity from my volume , have been able to ...
... former leaven , and among the many who have done me the honor of putting my poems in the same class with those of my betters , the one or two who have pretended to bring examples of affected simplicity from my volume , have been able to ...
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... former rest content between thought and reality , as it were in an intermundium , of which their own liv- ing spirit supplies the substance , and their imagination the ever varying form ; the latter must impress their preconceptions on ...
... former rest content between thought and reality , as it were in an intermundium , of which their own liv- ing spirit supplies the substance , and their imagination the ever varying form ; the latter must impress their preconceptions on ...
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