Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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Page 56
... beauty of the highest kind ; as illustrated by Mr. Wordsworth himself from the song of Deborah . “ At her feet he bowed , he fell , he lay down ; at her feet he bowed , he fell ; where he bowed , there he fell down dead . " CHAPTER ...
... beauty of the highest kind ; as illustrated by Mr. Wordsworth himself from the song of Deborah . “ At her feet he bowed , he fell , he lay down ; at her feet he bowed , he fell ; where he bowed , there he fell down dead . " CHAPTER ...
Page 96
... beauty . Waller's song " Go , lovely Rose , & c . " is doubtless fami- liar to most of my readers ; but if I had hap- pened to have had by me the Poems of COTTON , more but far less deservedly celebrated as the author of the Virgil ...
... beauty . Waller's song " Go , lovely Rose , & c . " is doubtless fami- liar to most of my readers ; but if I had hap- pened to have had by me the Poems of COTTON , more but far less deservedly celebrated as the author of the Virgil ...
Page 114
... beauty . From the sphere of my own experi- ence I can bring to my recollection three per- sons of no every - day powers and acquirements , who had read the poems of others with more and more unallayed pleasure , and had thought more ...
... beauty . From the sphere of my own experi- ence I can bring to my recollection three per- sons of no every - day powers and acquirements , who had read the poems of others with more and more unallayed pleasure , and had thought more ...
Page 126
... beauty ? What if he himself has owned , that beauties as great are scattered in abundance throughout the whole book ? And yet , though under this impression , should have commenced his critique in vulgar exultation with a prophecy meant ...
... beauty ? What if he himself has owned , that beauties as great are scattered in abundance throughout the whole book ? And yet , though under this impression , should have commenced his critique in vulgar exultation with a prophecy meant ...
Page 168
... beauty , and as eminently characteristic of Wordsworth's poetry , his rudest assailants have felt themselves compelled to acknowledge and admire . Fourth ; the perfect truth of nature in his images and descriptions as taken immediately ...
... beauty , and as eminently characteristic of Wordsworth's poetry , his rudest assailants have felt themselves compelled to acknowledge and admire . Fourth ; the perfect truth of nature in his images and descriptions as taken immediately ...
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