Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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... thought , do better , than keep before me the earliest work of the greatest genius , that perhaps human nature has yet produced , our myriad - minded * Shakspear . I mean the " Venus and Adonis , " and the " Lucrece ; " works which give ...
... thought , do better , than keep before me the earliest work of the greatest genius , that perhaps human nature has yet produced , our myriad - minded * Shakspear . I mean the " Venus and Adonis , " and the " Lucrece ; " works which give ...
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... thoughts , or permitted by the propriety of preserving a sense of me- lody predominant . The delight in richness and sweetness of sound , even to a faulty excess , if it be evidently original , and not the result of an easily imitable ...
... thoughts , or permitted by the propriety of preserving a sense of me- lody predominant . The delight in richness and sweetness of sound , even to a faulty excess , if it be evidently original , and not the result of an easily imitable ...
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... thoughts by some one predomi- nant thought or feeling , may be cultivated and improved , but can never be learnt . It is in these that " Poeta nascitur non fit . " # 2. A second promise of genius is the choice of subjects very remote ...
... thoughts by some one predomi- nant thought or feeling , may be cultivated and improved , but can never be learnt . It is in these that " Poeta nascitur non fit . " # 2. A second promise of genius is the choice of subjects very remote ...
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... the quick change , and the playful nature of the thoughts and images ; and above all from the alienation , and , if I may hazard such an expression , the utter aloofness of the poet's own feelings , from those of which he is at once 16.
... the quick change , and the playful nature of the thoughts and images ; and above all from the alienation , and , if I may hazard such an expression , the utter aloofness of the poet's own feelings , from those of which he is at once 16.
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... thoughts or images awakened by that passion ; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity , or succession to an instant ; or lastly , when a hu- man and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's own spirit ...
... thoughts or images awakened by that passion ; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity , or succession to an instant ; or lastly , when a hu- man and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's own spirit ...
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