Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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Page 99
... taste should object to the latter half of the sixth line . ) The second is a poem of greater length , which I have chosen not only for the present purpose , but likewise as a striking example and illustration of an assertion hazarded in ...
... taste should object to the latter half of the sixth line . ) The second is a poem of greater length , which I have chosen not only for the present purpose , but likewise as a striking example and illustration of an assertion hazarded in ...
Page 105
... taste , who had but studied three or four of Shakspeare's principal plays , would without the name affixed scarcely fail to recognize as Shakspeare's , a quotation from any other play , though but of a few lines . A similar peculiarity ...
... taste , who had but studied three or four of Shakspeare's principal plays , would without the name affixed scarcely fail to recognize as Shakspeare's , a quotation from any other play , though but of a few lines . A similar peculiarity ...
Page 124
... his life . " ( EXCURSION . ) Can it be expected , that either the author or his admirers , should be induced to pay any serious attention to decisions which prove no- thing but the pitiable state of the critic's own taste 124.
... his life . " ( EXCURSION . ) Can it be expected , that either the author or his admirers , should be induced to pay any serious attention to decisions which prove no- thing but the pitiable state of the critic's own taste 124.
Page 125
... taste seems capable of explaining such a contrast in judgement . That I had over - rated the merit of a passage or poem , that I had erred concerning the degree of its excellence , I might be easily induced to believe or apprehend . But ...
... taste seems capable of explaining such a contrast in judgement . That I had over - rated the merit of a passage or poem , that I had erred concerning the degree of its excellence , I might be easily induced to believe or apprehend . But ...
Page 127
... taste for which has been always deemed a mark of a low and degraded mind . When I was at Rome , among many other visits to the tomb of Julius II , I went thither once with a Prussian artist , a man of genius and great vivacity of ...
... taste for which has been always deemed a mark of a low and degraded mind . When I was at Rome , among many other visits to the tomb of Julius II , I went thither once with a Prussian artist , a man of genius and great vivacity of ...
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