Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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Page 69
... equally in small as in great concerns , cannot but inspire and bestow when this too is softened without being weakened by kindness and gentleness . I know few men who so well deserve the cha- racter which an antient attributes to Marcus ...
... equally in small as in great concerns , cannot but inspire and bestow when this too is softened without being weakened by kindness and gentleness . I know few men who so well deserve the cha- racter which an antient attributes to Marcus ...
Page 77
... equally albo lapide notatæ on the succeeding . • However this may be , it is assuredly hard and unjust to fix the attention on a few separate and insulated poems with as much aversion , as if they had been so many plague - spots on the ...
... equally albo lapide notatæ on the succeeding . • However this may be , it is assuredly hard and unjust to fix the attention on a few separate and insulated poems with as much aversion , as if they had been so many plague - spots on the ...
Page 78
... equally unqualified to the two subsequent volumes ) I have heard at different times , and from different individuals every single poem extolled and re- probated , with the exception of those of loftier kind , which as was before ...
... equally unqualified to the two subsequent volumes ) I have heard at different times , and from different individuals every single poem extolled and re- probated , with the exception of those of loftier kind , which as was before ...
Page 85
... a new feeling , from the time that he has read Burn's comparison of sensual pleasure " To snow that falls upon a river A moment white - then gone for ever ! " G 3 In poems , equally as in philosophic disqui- sitions , 85.
... a new feeling , from the time that he has read Burn's comparison of sensual pleasure " To snow that falls upon a river A moment white - then gone for ever ! " G 3 In poems , equally as in philosophic disqui- sitions , 85.
Page 86
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In poems , equally as in philosophic disqui- sitions , genius produces the strongest impres sions of novelty , while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In poems , equally as in philosophic disqui- sitions , genius produces the strongest impres sions of novelty , while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their ...
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