Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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Page 61
... effects , by enforcing a semblance of petulant ease and self - sufficiency , in repression , and pos sible after - perversion of the natural feelings . I have to beg Dr. Bell's pardon for this connection of the two names , but he knows ...
... effects , by enforcing a semblance of petulant ease and self - sufficiency , in repression , and pos sible after - perversion of the natural feelings . I have to beg Dr. Bell's pardon for this connection of the two names , but he knows ...
Page 67
... ruder kind " By bud of nobler race . This is an art , " Which does mend nature - change it rather ; but " The art itself is nature . " Secondly , I argue from the EFFECTS of metre . E e 2 67 greater, than would be desired or endured, ...
... ruder kind " By bud of nobler race . This is an art , " Which does mend nature - change it rather ; but " The art itself is nature . " Secondly , I argue from the EFFECTS of metre . E e 2 67 greater, than would be desired or endured, ...
Page 68
... EFFECTS of metre . As far as metre acts in and for itself , it tends to increase the vivacity and susceptibility both of the general feelings and of the attention . This effect it produces by the continued excitement of surprize , and ...
... EFFECTS of metre . As far as metre acts in and for itself , it tends to increase the vivacity and susceptibility both of the general feelings and of the attention . This effect it produces by the continued excitement of surprize , and ...
Page 69
... effects to any pleasureable purpose . Double and tri - syllable rhymes , indeed , form a lower species of wit , and attended to exclusively for their own sake may become a source of momentary amusement ; as in poor Smart's distich to ...
... effects to any pleasureable purpose . Double and tri - syllable rhymes , indeed , form a lower species of wit , and attended to exclusively for their own sake may become a source of momentary amusement ; as in poor Smart's distich to ...
Page 72
... effect produced on the author's feelings , as a man , by the incident at the time of its real occurrence , I would dare appeal to his own judgement , whether in the metre itself he found a sufficient reason for their being written ...
... effect produced on the author's feelings , as a man , by the incident at the time of its real occurrence , I would dare appeal to his own judgement , whether in the metre itself he found a sufficient reason for their being written ...
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