Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... eye shall MEMORY bring , I had continually to adduce the metre and In the Nutricia of Politian there occurs this line : " Pura coloratos interstrepit unda lapillos . " Casting my eye on a University prize - poem , I met this line ...
... eye shall MEMORY bring , I had continually to adduce the metre and In the Nutricia of Politian there occurs this line : " Pura coloratos interstrepit unda lapillos . " Casting my eye on a University prize - poem , I met this line ...
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... eyes perused With tearful vacancy the dampy grass That wept and glitter'd in the paly ray : And I did pause me , on my lonely way And mused me , on the wretched ones that pass O'er the bleak heath of sorrow . But alas ! Most of myself I ...
... eyes perused With tearful vacancy the dampy grass That wept and glitter'd in the paly ray : And I did pause me , on my lonely way And mused me , on the wretched ones that pass O'er the bleak heath of sorrow . But alas ! Most of myself I ...
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... eyes shall lie . Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes not yet created shall o'er - read ; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse , When all the breathers of this world are dead You still shall live , such virtue hath ...
... eyes shall lie . Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes not yet created shall o'er - read ; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse , When all the breathers of this world are dead You still shall live , such virtue hath ...
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... eye of our common consciousness . Yet even in this attempt I am aware , that I shall be obliged to draw more largely on the sense , if it is to convey any specific difference from sense and judgement in genere , and where it is not used ...
... eye of our common consciousness . Yet even in this attempt I am aware , that I shall be obliged to draw more largely on the sense , if it is to convey any specific difference from sense and judgement in genere , and where it is not used ...
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... eyes bandaged had lost several of his fingers by amputation , continued to com- plain for many days successively of pains , now in his joint and now in that of the very fingers which had been cut off . Des Cartes was led by this ...
... eyes bandaged had lost several of his fingers by amputation , continued to com- plain for many days successively of pains , now in his joint and now in that of the very fingers which had been cut off . Des Cartes was led by this ...
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Page 220 - Keen Pangs of Love, awakening as a babe Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart ; And Fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of Hope; And Hope that scarce would know itself from Fear ; Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain, And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain...
Page 296 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Page 19 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 184 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Page 124 - ... wins its way up against the stream, by alternate pulses of active and passive motion, now resisting the current, and now yielding to it in order to gather strength and a momentary fulcrum for a further propulsion. This is no unapt emblem of the mind's self-experience in the act of thinking.
Page 9 - In our own English compositions, (at least for the last three years of our school education), he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words.
Page 160 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding ; whence the Soul Reason receives, and Reason is her being, Discursive, or Intuitive: Discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Page 17 - Well were it for me, perhaps, had I never relapsed into the same mental disease, if I had continued to pluck the flower and reap the harvest from the cultivated surface. instead of delving in the unwholesome quicksilver mines of metaphysic depths.
Page 83 - ... arbitrary and illogical phrases, at once hackneyed, and fantastic, which hold so distinguished a place in the technique of ordinary poetry, and will, more or less, alloy the earlier poems of the truest genius, unless the attention has been specifically directed to their worthlessness and incongruity...
Page 227 - It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.