Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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Page 76
... fact , which I can state on my own know- ledge , that the same general censure should have been grounded almost by each different person on some different poem . Among those , whose candour and judgement I estimate highly , I distinctly ...
... fact , which I can state on my own know- ledge , that the same general censure should have been grounded almost by each different person on some different poem . Among those , whose candour and judgement I estimate highly , I distinctly ...
Page 78
... fact of itself would have made me diffident in my censures , had not a still stronger ground been furnished by the strange contrast of the heat and long continuance of the opposition , with the nature of the faults stated as justifying ...
... fact of itself would have made me diffident in my censures , had not a still stronger ground been furnished by the strange contrast of the heat and long continuance of the opposition , with the nature of the faults stated as justifying ...
Page 82
... fact , that in Greek Psyche is the common name for the soul , and the butterfly , is thus alluded to in the following stanza from an unpublished poem of the author : " The butterfly the ancient Grecians made The soul's fair emblem , and ...
... fact , that in Greek Psyche is the common name for the soul , and the butterfly , is thus alluded to in the following stanza from an unpublished poem of the author : " The butterfly the ancient Grecians made The soul's fair emblem , and ...
Page 90
... fact , and having dis- covered the difference , remove the equivocation either by the substitution of a new word , or by the appropriation of one of the two or more words , that had before been used pro- miscuously . When this ...
... fact , and having dis- covered the difference , remove the equivocation either by the substitution of a new word , or by the appropriation of one of the two or more words , that had before been used pro- miscuously . When this ...
Page 97
... fact and history , and the accuracy of the statement is to be tried by documents rather than reasoning . First then , I deny Hobbs's claim in toto : for he had been anticipated by Des Cartes whose work " De Methodo " preceded Hobbs's ...
... fact and history , and the accuracy of the statement is to be tried by documents rather than reasoning . First then , I deny Hobbs's claim in toto : for he had been anticipated by Des Cartes whose work " De Methodo " preceded Hobbs's ...
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Biographia Literaria Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Samuel Taylor Coleridge No preview available - 2019 |
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