Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1Rest Fenner, 23, Paternoster Row, 1817 - 296 pagina's First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... , as because they were consi- dered buds of hope , and promises of better works to come . The critics of that day , the most flattering , equally with the severest , con- curred in objecting to them , obscurity , a general 4.
... , as because they were consi- dered buds of hope , and promises of better works to come . The critics of that day , the most flattering , equally with the severest , con- curred in objecting to them , obscurity , a general 4.
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... equally true , of the Love's Labour Lost , Romeo and Juliet , Venus and Adonis , and Lucrece compared with the Lear , Macbeth , Othello , and Hamlet of our great Dramatist . The rule for the admission of double epithets seems to be this ...
... equally true , of the Love's Labour Lost , Romeo and Juliet , Venus and Adonis , and Lucrece compared with the Lear , Macbeth , Othello , and Hamlet of our great Dramatist . The rule for the admission of double epithets seems to be this ...
Pagina 9
... equally well with too many subjects ; in which how- ever it yielded the palm at once to the example of Alexander and Clytus , which was equally good and apt , whatever might be the theme . Was it ambition ? Alexander and Clytus ...
... equally well with too many subjects ; in which how- ever it yielded the palm at once to the example of Alexander and Clytus , which was equally good and apt , whatever might be the theme . Was it ambition ? Alexander and Clytus ...
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... equally out of his power to alter , were different , and such as , in my opinion , allowed a far wider sphere , and a deeper and more : human interest . Critics are too apt to forget , that rules are but means to an end ; consequently ...
... equally out of his power to alter , were different , and such as , in my opinion , allowed a far wider sphere , and a deeper and more : human interest . Critics are too apt to forget , that rules are but means to an end ; consequently ...
Pagina 45
... equally essential ; and in the due modification of each by the other the GENIUS itself consists ; so that it would be as just as fair to describe the earth , as in imminent danger of exorbitating , or of falling into the sun , according ...
... equally essential ; and in the due modification of each by the other the GENIUS itself consists ; so that it would be as just as fair to describe the earth , as in imminent danger of exorbitating , or of falling into the sun , according ...
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Pagina 220 - Keen Pangs of Love, awakening as a babe Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart ; And Fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of Hope; And Hope that scarce would know itself from Fear ; Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain, And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain...
Pagina 296 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Pagina 19 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Pagina 184 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Pagina 124 - ... wins its way up against the stream, by alternate pulses of active and passive motion, now resisting the current, and now yielding to it in order to gather strength and a momentary fulcrum for a further propulsion. This is no unapt emblem of the mind's self-experience in the act of thinking.
Pagina 9 - In our own English compositions, (at least for the last three years of our school education), he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words.
Pagina 160 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding ; whence the Soul Reason receives, and Reason is her being, Discursive, or Intuitive: Discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Pagina 17 - Well were it for me, perhaps, had I never relapsed into the same mental disease, if I had continued to pluck the flower and reap the harvest from the cultivated surface. instead of delving in the unwholesome quicksilver mines of metaphysic depths.
Pagina 83 - ... arbitrary and illogical phrases, at once hackneyed, and fantastic, which hold so distinguished a place in the technique of ordinary poetry, and will, more or less, alloy the earlier poems of the truest genius, unless the attention has been specifically directed to their worthlessness and incongruity...
Pagina 227 - It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.