Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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... fellow- men . In chastity of diction however , and the harmony of blank verse , Cowper leaves Thompson unmeasureably below him ; yet still I feel the latter to have been the born poet . • at least a remnant of the former leaven , 25.
... fellow- men . In chastity of diction however , and the harmony of blank verse , Cowper leaves Thompson unmeasureably below him ; yet still I feel the latter to have been the born poet . • at least a remnant of the former leaven , 25.
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... least a remnant of the former leaven , and among the many who have done me the honor of putting my poems in the same class with those of my betters , the one or two , who have pretended to bring examples of affected sim- plicity from my ...
... least a remnant of the former leaven , and among the many who have done me the honor of putting my poems in the same class with those of my betters , the one or two , who have pretended to bring examples of affected sim- plicity from my ...
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... , they heat and in- flame by co - acervation ; or like bees they be- come restless and irritable through the increased temperature of collected multitudes . Hence the German word for fanaticism ( such at least was CHAPTER II. ...
... , they heat and in- flame by co - acervation ; or like bees they be- come restless and irritable through the increased temperature of collected multitudes . Hence the German word for fanaticism ( such at least was CHAPTER II. ...
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... least was its original import ) is derived from the swarming of bees , namely , Schwärmen , Sch- wärmerey . The passion being in an inverse proportion to the insight , that the more vivid , as this the less distinct ; anger is the ...
... least was its original import ) is derived from the swarming of bees , namely , Schwärmen , Sch- wärmerey . The passion being in an inverse proportion to the insight , that the more vivid , as this the less distinct ; anger is the ...
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... least trace of irritability , and still less of quarrelsome or affected con- tempt of his censurers . The same calmness , and even greater self- possession , may be affirmed of Milton , as far as his poems , and poetic character are con ...
... least trace of irritability , and still less of quarrelsome or affected con- tempt of his censurers . The same calmness , and even greater self- possession , may be affirmed of Milton , as far as his poems , and poetic character are con ...
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