Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... mind itself , and their comparative dig- nity and importance . According to the faculty or source , from which the pleasure given by any poem or passage was derived , I estimated the merit of such poem or passage . As the result of all ...
... mind itself , and their comparative dig- nity and importance . According to the faculty or source , from which the pleasure given by any poem or passage was derived , I estimated the merit of such poem or passage . As the result of all ...
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... minds be carried to an excess , that itself will need reforming . The reader will excuse me for noticing , that I myself was the first to expose risu honesto the three sins of poetry , one or the other of which is the most likely to ...
... minds be carried to an excess , that itself will need reforming . The reader will excuse me for noticing , that I myself was the first to expose risu honesto the three sins of poetry , one or the other of which is the most likely to ...
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... mind liable to superstition and fanaticism . Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth , minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth in common , which they do not possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in ...
... mind liable to superstition and fanaticism . Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth , minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth in common , which they do not possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in ...
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... minds for that , which they yet believe both true and indispensible for their safety and happiness , cannot but produce ... mind is be- tween superstition with fanaticism on the one hand ; and enthusiasm with indifference and a diseased ...
... minds for that , which they yet believe both true and indispensible for their safety and happiness , cannot but produce ... mind is be- tween superstition with fanaticism on the one hand ; and enthusiasm with indifference and a diseased ...
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... mind may be so vivid and adequate , as to preclude that impulse to the realizing of them , which is strongest and most restless in those , who possess more than mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of ...
... mind may be so vivid and adequate , as to preclude that impulse to the realizing of them , which is strongest and most restless in those , who possess more than mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of ...
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Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions No preview available - 2020 |
Biographia Literaria Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Samuel Taylor Coleridge No preview available - 2019 |
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