Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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Page 69
... spirit to the liquor with which it is proportionally combined . The reference to the " Children in the Wood " by no means satisfies my judgement . We all willingly throw ourselves back for awhile into the feelings of our childhood ...
... spirit to the liquor with which it is proportionally combined . The reference to the " Children in the Wood " by no means satisfies my judgement . We all willingly throw ourselves back for awhile into the feelings of our childhood ...
Page 73
... spirit is not dead ; Old times , thought I , are breathing there ! Proud was I , that my country bred Such strength , a dignity so fair ! She begged an alms , like one in poor estate ; I looked at her again , nor did my pride abate ...
... spirit is not dead ; Old times , thought I , are breathing there ! Proud was I , that my country bred Such strength , a dignity so fair ! She begged an alms , like one in poor estate ; I looked at her again , nor did my pride abate ...
Page 93
... spirit of his critique on Gray's sonnet ; those sentences ap- pear to have been rather courtesies of modesty , than actual limitations of his system . Yet so groundless does this system appear on a close examination ; and so strange and ...
... spirit of his critique on Gray's sonnet ; those sentences ap- pear to have been rather courtesies of modesty , than actual limitations of his system . Yet so groundless does this system appear on a close examination ; and so strange and ...
Page 119
... spirit . This determination of unlicensed personality , and of permitted and legitimate censure ( which I owe in part to the illustrious LESSING , him- self a model of acute , spirited , sometimes sting- ing , but always argumentative ...
... spirit . This determination of unlicensed personality , and of permitted and legitimate censure ( which I owe in part to the illustrious LESSING , him- self a model of acute , spirited , sometimes sting- ing , but always argumentative ...
Page 124
... spirit drank The spectacle ! sensation , soul , and form , All melted into him . They swallowed up His animal being : in them did he live , And by them did he live : they were his life . " ( EXCURSION . ) Can it be expected , that ...
... spirit drank The spectacle ! sensation , soul , and form , All melted into him . They swallowed up His animal being : in them did he live , And by them did he live : they were his life . " ( EXCURSION . ) Can it be expected , that ...
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