Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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Page 74
... connected with poetry most often and by a peculiar fitness , whatever else is combined with metre must , though it be not itself essentially poetic , have nevertheless some property in common with poetry , as an inter- medium of ...
... connected with poetry most often and by a peculiar fitness , whatever else is combined with metre must , though it be not itself essentially poetic , have nevertheless some property in common with poetry , as an inter- medium of ...
Page 75
... connected with this , if not the same argument in a more general form , I adduce the high spiritual instinct of the human being impelling us to seek unity by harmonious adjustment , and thus establishing the principle , that all the ...
... connected with this , if not the same argument in a more general form , I adduce the high spiritual instinct of the human being impelling us to seek unity by harmonious adjustment , and thus establishing the principle , that all the ...
Page 84
... connection by the genitive pronoun . Men in general would have said , " but that was a circumstance they paid no at- tention to , or took no notice of , " and the language is , on the theory of the preface , justified only by the ...
... connection by the genitive pronoun . Men in general would have said , " but that was a circumstance they paid no at- tention to , or took no notice of , " and the language is , on the theory of the preface , justified only by the ...
Page 86
... that state ; and in what instances such figures and colors of speech degenerate into mere creatures of an arbitrary purpose , cold tech- nical artifices of ornament or connection . For even as truth is its own light and evidence , 86.
... that state ; and in what instances such figures and colors of speech degenerate into mere creatures of an arbitrary purpose , cold tech- nical artifices of ornament or connection . For even as truth is its own light and evidence , 86.
Page 99
... will resolve you : I am lunatic ! The other recalls a still odder passage in the " SYNAGOGUE : or the Shadow of the Temple , " a connected series of poems in imitation of Herbert's " Gg 2 99 Private Ejaculations" are comparatively but ...
... will resolve you : I am lunatic ! The other recalls a still odder passage in the " SYNAGOGUE : or the Shadow of the Temple , " a connected series of poems in imitation of Herbert's " Gg 2 99 Private Ejaculations" are comparatively but ...
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