Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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Page 81
... light ! Triumphant on the bosom of the storm , Glances the fire - clad eagle's wheeling form ; Eastward , in long perspective glittering , shine The wood - crowned cliffs that o'er the lake recline ; Wide o'er the Alps a hundred streams ...
... light ! Triumphant on the bosom of the storm , Glances the fire - clad eagle's wheeling form ; Eastward , in long perspective glittering , shine The wood - crowned cliffs that o'er the lake recline ; Wide o'er the Alps a hundred streams ...
Page 89
... light . It would in its immediate effects furnish a torch of guidance to the philosophical critic ; and ultimately to the poet himself . In energetic minds , truth soon changes by domestication into power ; and from directing in the ...
... light . It would in its immediate effects furnish a torch of guidance to the philosophical critic ; and ultimately to the poet himself . In energetic minds , truth soon changes by domestication into power ; and from directing in the ...
Page 98
... physiological , he arrogates any originality . His system is briefly this ; when- ever the senses are impinged on by external ob- jects , whether by the rays of light reflected from them , or by effluxes of their finer parti- 98.
... physiological , he arrogates any originality . His system is briefly this ; when- ever the senses are impinged on by external ob- jects , whether by the rays of light reflected from them , or by effluxes of their finer parti- 98.
Page 102
... of hollow tubes ( as Hartley teaches ) -nor finally , ( with yet more recent dreamers ) of chemical compositions by elective affinity , or of an electric light at once the immediate object and the ultimate organ of inward vision 102.
... of hollow tubes ( as Hartley teaches ) -nor finally , ( with yet more recent dreamers ) of chemical compositions by elective affinity , or of an electric light at once the immediate object and the ultimate organ of inward vision 102.
Page 112
... light - headedness ; and even to this it applies but partially , because the will , and reason are perhaps never wholly suspended . A case of this kind occurred in a Catholic town in Germany a year or two before my arrival at Göttingen ...
... light - headedness ; and even to this it applies but partially , because the will , and reason are perhaps never wholly suspended . A case of this kind occurred in a Catholic town in Germany a year or two before my arrival at Göttingen ...
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