Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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Page 14
... passing into a loftier and more majectic rhythm , than was demanded by the thoughts , or permitted by the propriety of preserving a sense of me- lody predominant . The delight in richness and sweetness of sound , even to a faulty excess ...
... passing into a loftier and more majectic rhythm , than was demanded by the thoughts , or permitted by the propriety of preserving a sense of me- lody predominant . The delight in richness and sweetness of sound , even to a faulty excess ...
Page 51
... passed into common life . The extreme difficulty , and often the im- possibility , of finding words for the simplest moral and intellectual processes in the lan- guages of uncivilized tribes has proved perhaps 1 the weightiest obstacle ...
... passed into common life . The extreme difficulty , and often the im- possibility , of finding words for the simplest moral and intellectual processes in the lan- guages of uncivilized tribes has proved perhaps 1 the weightiest obstacle ...
Page 84
... passed that way some two hours after , but they did not find him at the appointed place , a circumstance of which they took no heed : but one of them going by chance into the house , which at this time was James's house , learnt there ...
... passed that way some two hours after , but they did not find him at the appointed place , a circumstance of which they took no heed : but one of them going by chance into the house , which at this time was James's house , learnt there ...
Page 94
... passed too current with too many for poetic diction , ( though in truth it had as little pretensions to poetry , as to logic or com- mon sense ) he narrowed his view for the time ; and feeling a justifiable preference for the lan- guage ...
... passed too current with too many for poetic diction , ( though in truth it had as little pretensions to poetry , as to logic or com- mon sense ) he narrowed his view for the time ; and feeling a justifiable preference for the lan- guage ...
Page 128
... passed in procession before our minds . My companion who possessed more than his share of the hatred , which his countrymen bore to the French , had just observed to me , " a Frenchman , Sir ! is the only animal in the human shape ...
... passed in procession before our minds . My companion who possessed more than his share of the hatred , which his countrymen bore to the French , had just observed to me , " a Frenchman , Sir ! is the only animal in the human shape ...
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