Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volumen1Rest Fenner, 23, Paternoster Row, 1817 - 296 páginas First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... objects , which I proposed to myself , it was not the least important to effect , as far as possible , a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction : and at the same time to define with the ...
... objects , which I proposed to myself , it was not the least important to effect , as far as possible , a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction : and at the same time to define with the ...
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... objects of poetry . This re- mark however applies chiefly , though not ex- clusively to the Religious Musings . The re- mainder of the charge I admitted to its full extent , and not without sincere acknowledg- ments to both my private ...
... objects of poetry . This re- mark however applies chiefly , though not ex- clusively to the Religious Musings . The re- mainder of the charge I admitted to its full extent , and not without sincere acknowledg- ments to both my private ...
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... object to a certain degree of disputa- tiousness in a young man from the age of seven- teen to that of four or five and twenty , provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question . The controversies , occasioned by my ...
... object to a certain degree of disputa- tiousness in a young man from the age of seven- teen to that of four or five and twenty , provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question . The controversies , occasioned by my ...
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... object to excite a good - natur- ed laugh at the spirit of doleful egotism , and at the recurrence of favorite phrases , with the double defect of being at once trite , and licen- tious . The second , on low , creeping language and ...
... object to excite a good - natur- ed laugh at the spirit of doleful egotism , and at the recurrence of favorite phrases , with the double defect of being at once trite , and licen- tious . The second , on low , creeping language and ...
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... objects of the senses ; the mind is affected by thoughts , rather than by things ; and only then feels the requisite interest even for the most important events , and accidents , when by means of meditation they have passed into ...
... objects of the senses ; the mind is affected by thoughts , rather than by things ; and only then feels the requisite interest even for the most important events , and accidents , when by means of meditation they have passed into ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ab extra absolute absurdity Aristotle association attribute become cause CHAPTER commencement common concerning consciousness criticism deduced deemed diction distinct EDMUND BURKE effect equally essays existence faculty fancy feelings former genius Greek ground Hartley heart honor human idea imagination imitation impression instance intel intellect intelligence intuition intuitive knowledge jacobinism Jeremy Taylor judgement knowledge language latter learned least less lines literary Lyrical Ballads meaning mechanical philosophy merit metaphysical Milton mind mode moral motives natural philosophy nature never nihil notions object once original Pantheism Parva Naturalia passages perusal phænomena philoso philosopher Plato Plotinus poems poet poetic poetry possible present principles racter reader reason scarcely SCHOLIUM self-consciousness sensation sense sonnets sophism soul Southey Spinoza spirit style supposed Synesius talent taste thing thought tion tive true truth understanding volume whole words Wordsworth writer καὶ τὸ
Pasajes populares
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 184 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 227 - It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.