Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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Page 52
... expression ; " it may be answered , that the lan- guage , which he has in view , can be attributed to rustics with no greater right , than the style of Hooker or Bacon to Tom Brown or Sir Roger L'Estrange . Doubtless , if what is pe ...
... expression ; " it may be answered , that the lan- guage , which he has in view , can be attributed to rustics with no greater right , than the style of Hooker or Bacon to Tom Brown or Sir Roger L'Estrange . Doubtless , if what is pe ...
Page 71
... expressions , to which the metrical form is superadded . Neither can I conceive any other answer that can be rationally given , short of this : I write in metre , because I am about to use a language different from that of prose ...
... expressions , to which the metrical form is superadded . Neither can I conceive any other answer that can be rationally given , short of this : I write in metre , because I am about to use a language different from that of prose ...
Page 74
... expression . But where there exists that degree of genius and talent which entitles a writer to aim at the honors of a poet , the very act of poetic composition itself is , and is allowed to imply and to pro- duce , an unusual state of ...
... expression . But where there exists that degree of genius and talent which entitles a writer to aim at the honors of a poet , the very act of poetic composition itself is , and is allowed to imply and to pro- duce , an unusual state of ...
Page 95
... expression of the thought , and yet to find at the same time with it the rhyme and the metre . Gellert possessed this happy gift , if ever any one of our poets possessed it ; and nothing perhaps contributed more to the great and ...
... expression of the thought , and yet to find at the same time with it the rhyme and the metre . Gellert possessed this happy gift , if ever any one of our poets possessed it ; and nothing perhaps contributed more to the great and ...
Page 98
... expressions and the arrangement , is George Herbert . As from the nature of the subject , and the too frequent quaintness of the thoughts , his " Temple ; or Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations " are comparatively but little known , I 98.
... expressions and the arrangement , is George Herbert . As from the nature of the subject , and the too frequent quaintness of the thoughts , his " Temple ; or Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations " are comparatively but little known , I 98.
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