Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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Page 62
... gives an additional and more ludicrous absurdity to these lamentations is the curious fact , that if in a volume of poetry the critic should find poem or passage which he deems more especially worthless , he is sure to select and ...
... gives an additional and more ludicrous absurdity to these lamentations is the curious fact , that if in a volume of poetry the critic should find poem or passage which he deems more especially worthless , he is sure to select and ...
Page 64
... give me interesting information , such as experience would not have authorised me in anticipating . And as to compositions which the authors themselves announce with " Hæc ipsi novimus . esse nihil , " why should we judge by a dif ...
... give me interesting information , such as experience would not have authorised me in anticipating . And as to compositions which the authors themselves announce with " Hæc ipsi novimus . esse nihil , " why should we judge by a dif ...
Page 87
... give , " & c . & c . There is a sort of minim immortal among the ani- malcula infusoria which has not naturally either birth , or death , absolute beginning , or absolute end : for at a certain period a small point appears on its back ...
... give , " & c . & c . There is a sort of minim immortal among the ani- malcula infusoria which has not naturally either birth , or death , absolute beginning , or absolute end : for at a certain period a small point appears on its back ...
Page 126
... give I am aware , that this word occurs neither in Johnson's Dictionary or in any classical writer . But the word , " to intend , ” which Newton and others before him employ in this sense , is now so completely appropriated to another ...
... give I am aware , that this word occurs neither in Johnson's Dictionary or in any classical writer . But the word , " to intend , ” which Newton and others before him employ in this sense , is now so completely appropriated to another ...
Page 142
... give offence ; hence the foresight , and the dread of the clamours , which would be raised against them , so frequently avowed in the writings of these men , and expressed , as was natural , in the words of the only book , with which ...
... give offence ; hence the foresight , and the dread of the clamours , which would be raised against them , so frequently avowed in the writings of these men , and expressed , as was natural , in the words of the only book , with which ...
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