Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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Page 42
... mere refusal of praise , as a robbery , and at the justest censures kindle at once into violent and undisciplined abuse ; till the acute disease changing into chronical , the more deadly as the less violent , they be- come the fit ...
... mere refusal of praise , as a robbery , and at the justest censures kindle at once into violent and undisciplined abuse ; till the acute disease changing into chronical , the more deadly as the less violent , they be- come the fit ...
Page 43
... mere shadow - fights ( oxiquaxas ) in the comparison . Or is wealth the only rational object of human interest ? Or even if this were admitted , has the poet no property in his works ? Or is it a rare , or culpable case , that he who ...
... mere shadow - fights ( oxiquaxas ) in the comparison . Or is wealth the only rational object of human interest ? Or even if this were admitted , has the poet no property in his works ? Or is it a rare , or culpable case , that he who ...
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... mere mechanism of verse is , may be conjectured from the failure of those , who have attempted poetry late in life . Where then a man has , from his earliest youth , devoted his whole being to an object , which by the admis- sion of all ...
... mere mechanism of verse is , may be conjectured from the failure of those , who have attempted poetry late in life . Where then a man has , from his earliest youth , devoted his whole being to an object , which by the admis- sion of all ...
Page 63
... letters , as the guides of their taste and judgment . To the purchaser and mere reader it is , at all events , an injustice . He who tells me that there are defects in a new • work , tells me nothing which I should not 63.
... letters , as the guides of their taste and judgment . To the purchaser and mere reader it is , at all events , an injustice . He who tells me that there are defects in a new • work , tells me nothing which I should not 63.
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... mere man of business , loses all semblance of formality in the dignified simplicity of his manners , in the spring and healthful chearfulness of his spirits . Always employed , his friends find him always at leisure . No less punctual ...
... mere man of business , loses all semblance of formality in the dignified simplicity of his manners , in the spring and healthful chearfulness of his spirits . Always employed , his friends find him always at leisure . No less punctual ...
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