Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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Page 17
... pleasure of a delicate mind , yet never was poem less dan- gerous on a moral account . Instead of doing as Ariosto , and as , still more offensively , Wieland has done , instead of degrading and deforming passion into appetite , the ...
... pleasure of a delicate mind , yet never was poem less dan- gerous on a moral account . Instead of doing as Ariosto , and as , still more offensively , Wieland has done , instead of degrading and deforming passion into appetite , the ...
Page 37
... pleasure of doubtful moral effect , which persons of elevated rank and of superior refinement oftentimes derive from a happy imitation of the rude unpolished man- ners and discourse of their inferiors . For the pleasure so derived may ...
... pleasure of doubtful moral effect , which persons of elevated rank and of superior refinement oftentimes derive from a happy imitation of the rude unpolished man- ners and discourse of their inferiors . For the pleasure so derived may ...
Page 42
... pleasure , and in union with the activity both of our understanding and imagination . They wished to trans- port the mind to a sense of its possible greatness , and to im- plant the germs of that greatness , during the temporary obli ...
... pleasure , and in union with the activity both of our understanding and imagination . They wished to trans- port the mind to a sense of its possible greatness , and to im- plant the germs of that greatness , during the temporary obli ...
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... pleasurable feeling of blind love , The pleasure which there is in life itself . On the other hand , in the poems which are pitched at a lower note , as the " HARRY GILL , " " IDIOT BOY , " & c . the feelings are those of human nature ...
... pleasurable feeling of blind love , The pleasure which there is in life itself . On the other hand , in the poems which are pitched at a lower note , as the " HARRY GILL , " " IDIOT BOY , " & c . the feelings are those of human nature ...
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... pleasure of wonder by means of groundless novelty , substitutes a language of folly and vanity , not for that of the rustic , but for that of good sense and natural feeling . Here let me be permitted to remind the reader , 52.
... pleasure of wonder by means of groundless novelty , substitutes a language of folly and vanity , not for that of the rustic , but for that of good sense and natural feeling . Here let me be permitted to remind the reader , 52.
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