Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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Page 65
... no one in short who has combined so much wisdom with * See the articles on Methodism , in the Quarterly Review ; the small volume on the New System of Education , & c . F so much wit ; so much truth and knowledge with 65.
... no one in short who has combined so much wisdom with * See the articles on Methodism , in the Quarterly Review ; the small volume on the New System of Education , & c . F so much wit ; so much truth and knowledge with 65.
Page 72
... volumes so entitled . A careful and repeated examina- tion of these confirms me in the belief , that the omission of less than an hundred lines would have precluded nine - tenths of the criticism on this work . I hazard this declaration ...
... volumes so entitled . A careful and repeated examina- tion of these confirms me in the belief , that the omission of less than an hundred lines would have precluded nine - tenths of the criticism on this work . I hazard this declaration ...
Page 73
... volume altogether . Others more catholic in their taste , and yet habituated to be most pleas- ed when most excited , would have contented ` themselves with deciding , that the author had been successful in proportion to the elevation ...
... volume altogether . Others more catholic in their taste , and yet habituated to be most pleas- ed when most excited , would have contented ` themselves with deciding , that the author had been successful in proportion to the elevation ...
Page 77
... volumes , as was made in the well known story of the picture , the result would have been the same ; the parts which had been covered by the number of the black spots on the one day , would be found equally albo lapide notatæ on the ...
... volumes , as was made in the well known story of the picture , the result would have been the same ; the parts which had been covered by the number of the black spots on the one day , would be found equally albo lapide notatæ on the ...
Page 78
... volumes ) I have heard at different times , and from different individuals every single poem extolled and re- probated , with the exception of those of loftier kind , which as was before observed , seem to have won universal praise ...
... volumes ) I have heard at different times , and from different individuals every single poem extolled and re- probated , with the exception of those of loftier kind , which as was before observed , seem to have won universal praise ...
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