Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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Page 83
... English pastoral , which I never yet read with unclouded eye . " James , pointing to its summit , over which they had all purposed to return together , informed them that 1 transplanted for no assignable cause or reason but that of Ff2 ...
... English pastoral , which I never yet read with unclouded eye . " James , pointing to its summit , over which they had all purposed to return together , informed them that 1 transplanted for no assignable cause or reason but that of Ff2 ...
Page 84
... English , they are not the phraseology of common conversation either in the word put in apposition , or in the connection by the genitive pronoun . Men in general would have said , " but that was a circumstance they paid no at- tention ...
... English , they are not the phraseology of common conversation either in the word put in apposition , or in the connection by the genitive pronoun . Men in general would have said , " but that was a circumstance they paid no at- tention ...
Page 93
... English poetry . But from the train of argument that follows ; from the reference to Milton ; and from the spirit of his critique on Gray's sonnet ; those sentences ap- pear to have been rather courtesies of modesty , than actual ...
... English poetry . But from the train of argument that follows ; from the reference to Milton ; and from the spirit of his critique on Gray's sonnet ; those sentences ap- pear to have been rather courtesies of modesty , than actual ...
Page 97
... English and undefiled , " ) what could we hear more natural , or seemingly more unstudied , than the following stanzas from Chaucer's Troilus and Crescide . " And after this forth to the gate he went , Ther as Creseide out rode a full ...
... English and undefiled , " ) what could we hear more natural , or seemingly more unstudied , than the following stanzas from Chaucer's Troilus and Crescide . " And after this forth to the gate he went , Ther as Creseide out rode a full ...
Page 104
... English is undoubtedly his ; nay , laying the main em- phasis on the word uniform I will dare add that , of all contemporary poets , it is his alone . For in a less absolute sense of the word , I should certainly include MR . Bowles ...
... English is undoubtedly his ; nay , laying the main em- phasis on the word uniform I will dare add that , of all contemporary poets , it is his alone . For in a less absolute sense of the word , I should certainly include MR . Bowles ...
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