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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Pagina 8
... position of every word ; and I well remember , that availing himself of the syno- nimes to the Homer of Didymus , he made us attempt to show , with regard to each , why it would not have answered the same purpose ; and wherein consisted ...
... position of every word ; and I well remember , that availing himself of the syno- nimes to the Homer of Didymus , he made us attempt to show , with regard to each , why it would not have answered the same purpose ; and wherein consisted ...
Pagina 23
... position of a word , in Milton or Shakspeare , ( in their most important works at least ) without making the author say something else , or something worse , than he does say . One great distinction , I appeared to myself to see plainly ...
... position of a word , in Milton or Shakspeare , ( in their most important works at least ) without making the author say something else , or something worse , than he does say . One great distinction , I appeared to myself to see plainly ...
Pagina 39
... position and choice of words , in Mr. Pope's original compositions , particularly in his satires and moral essays , for the purpose of comparing them with his translation of Homer , which , I do not stand alone in re- garding as the ...
... position and choice of words , in Mr. Pope's original compositions , particularly in his satires and moral essays , for the purpose of comparing them with his translation of Homer , which , I do not stand alone in re- garding as the ...
Pagina 76
... position which one had cited as execrable , Ego contemplatus . Now the change of one visual image for another involves in itself no absurdity , and becomes absurd only by its immediate juxta - position with the first thought , which is ...
... position which one had cited as execrable , Ego contemplatus . Now the change of one visual image for another involves in itself no absurdity , and becomes absurd only by its immediate juxta - position with the first thought , which is ...
Pagina 102
... positions on this subject are unmixed with fiction . The wise Stagyrite speaks of no successive particles propagating motion like billiard balls ( as Hobbs ; ) nor of nervous or animal spirits , where inanimate and irrational solids are ...
... positions on this subject are unmixed with fiction . The wise Stagyrite speaks of no successive particles propagating motion like billiard balls ( as Hobbs ; ) nor of nervous or animal spirits , where inanimate and irrational solids are ...
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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.