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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... causes . In the truly great poets , he would say , there is a reason assignable , not only for every word , but for the position of every word ; and I well remember , that availing himself of the syno- nimes to the Homer of Didymus , he ...
... causes . In the truly great poets , he would say , there is a reason assignable , not only for every word , but for the position of every word ; and I well remember , that availing himself of the syno- nimes to the Homer of Didymus , he ...
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... causes , which this is not the place to investigate , no models of past times , however perfect , can have the same vivid effect on the youthful mind , as the productions of contem- porary genius . The Discipline , my mind had undergone ...
... causes , which this is not the place to investigate , no models of past times , however perfect , can have the same vivid effect on the youthful mind , as the productions of contem- porary genius . The Discipline , my mind had undergone ...
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... cause or impulse Percy's collection of Ballads may bear to the most popular poems of the present day ; yet in the more sustained and elevated style , of the * I remember a ludicrous instance in the poem of a tradesman : " No more will I ...
... cause or impulse Percy's collection of Ballads may bear to the most popular poems of the present day ; yet in the more sustained and elevated style , of the * I remember a ludicrous instance in the poem of a tradesman : " No more will I ...
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... Causes and Occasions of the charge - Its Injustice . I have often thought , that it would be neither uninstructive nor unamusing to analyze , and bring forward into distinct consciousness , that complex feeling , with which readers in ...
... Causes and Occasions of the charge - Its Injustice . I have often thought , that it would be neither uninstructive nor unamusing to analyze , and bring forward into distinct consciousness , that complex feeling , with which readers in ...
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... causes have diffused over all his compositions " a melancholy grace , " and have drawn forth occasional strains , the more pathetic from their gentleness . But no where do we find the least trace of irritability , and still less of ...
... causes have diffused over all his compositions " a melancholy grace , " and have drawn forth occasional strains , the more pathetic from their gentleness . But no where do we find the least trace of irritability , and still less of ...
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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.