Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... 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 beset a young writer . So long ago as the publica- tion of the second ...
... 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 beset a young writer . So long ago as the publica- tion of the second ...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. language and imagery . The reader will find them in the note * below , and will I trust regard them as reprinted for biographical purposes , and not for their poetic merits . So general at SONNET I. PENSIVE at ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. language and imagery . The reader will find them in the note * below , and will I trust regard them as reprinted for biographical purposes , and not for their poetic merits . So general at SONNET I. PENSIVE at ...
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... reader . An amateur per- former in verse expressed to a common friend , a strong de- sire to be introduced to me , but hesitated in accepting my friend's immediate offer , on the score that " he was , he must acknowledge the author of a ...
... reader . An amateur per- former in verse expressed to a common friend , a strong de- sire to be introduced to me , but hesitated in accepting my friend's immediate offer , on the score that " he was , he must acknowledge the author of a ...
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... readers in general take part against the author , in favor of the critic ; and the readiness with which they apply to all poets the old sarcasm of Horace upon the scriblers of his time : " Genus irritabile vatum . " A debility and ...
... readers in general take part against the author , in favor of the critic ; and the readiness with which they apply to all poets the old sarcasm of Horace upon the scriblers of his time : " Genus irritabile vatum . " A debility and ...
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... reader the trouble of thinking ; prevents vacancy , while it indulges indolence ; and secures the memory from all danger of an intellectual plethora . Hence of all trades , literature at present de- mands the least talent or information ...
... reader the trouble of thinking ; prevents vacancy , while it indulges indolence ; and secures the memory from all danger of an intellectual plethora . Hence of all trades , literature at present de- mands the least talent or information ...
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