Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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Page 189
... DANE . My dear friend ! -- ( then with a would - be humble look , and in a tone of voice as if he was reasoning ) I could not talk so of presens and imperfectum , and futurum and plusquamplue perfectum , and all dhat , my dear friend ...
... DANE . My dear friend ! -- ( then with a would - be humble look , and in a tone of voice as if he was reasoning ) I could not talk so of presens and imperfectum , and futurum and plusquamplue perfectum , and all dhat , my dear friend ...
Page 190
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. THE DANE . ( a little offended . ) Grammar is language , and language is grammar— ANSW . Ten thousand pardons ! THE DANE . Vell , and I was only fourteen years- ANSW . Only fourteen years old ? THE DANE . No more ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. THE DANE . ( a little offended . ) Grammar is language , and language is grammar— ANSW . Ten thousand pardons ! THE DANE . Vell , and I was only fourteen years- ANSW . Only fourteen years old ? THE DANE . No more ...
Page 191
... Dane , the Swede , and the Prussian , joined us , together with a young Englishman who spoke the German fluently , and interpreted to me many of the Prussian's jokes . The Prussian was a travelling merchant , turned of threescore , a ...
... Dane , the Swede , and the Prussian , joined us , together with a young Englishman who spoke the German fluently , and interpreted to me many of the Prussian's jokes . The Prussian was a travelling merchant , turned of threescore , a ...
Page 192
... Dane ; but was however in- comparably the best informed and most rational of the party . Indeed his manners and conver- sation discovered him to be both a man of the world and a gentleman . hold : the French gentleman was lying on the ...
... Dane ; but was however in- comparably the best informed and most rational of the party . Indeed his manners and conver- sation discovered him to be both a man of the world and a gentleman . hold : the French gentleman was lying on the ...
Page 193
... Dane , by means of the greater agitation , eliminated enough of what he had been swallowing to make room for a great deal more . His favourite potation was sugar and brandy , i . e . a very little warm water with a large quan- tity of ...
... Dane , by means of the greater agitation , eliminated enough of what he had been swallowing to make room for a great deal more . His favourite potation was sugar and brandy , i . e . a very little warm water with a large quan- tity of ...
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