Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and OpinionsRest Fenner, 1817 - 309 páginas |
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... Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate . • * " There's no Philosopher but sees , That rage and fear are one disease , Tho ' that may burn , and this may freeze , They're both alike the ague . " B ...
... Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate . • * " There's no Philosopher but sees , That rage and fear are one disease , Tho ' that may burn , and this may freeze , They're both alike the ague . " B ...
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... to explain the easy credence generally given to this charge , if the charge itself be not , as we have endeavoured to 1 I show , supported by experience ? This seems to me I 36 From others only do we derive our knowledge ...
... to explain the easy credence generally given to this charge , if the charge itself be not , as we have endeavoured to 1 I show , supported by experience ? This seems to me I 36 From others only do we derive our knowledge ...
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... experience ? This seems to me of no very difficult solution . In whatever country literature is widely diffused , there will be many who mistake an intense desire to possess the reputation of poetic genius , for the actual powers , and ...
... experience ? This seems to me of no very difficult solution . In whatever country literature is widely diffused , there will be many who mistake an intense desire to possess the reputation of poetic genius , for the actual powers , and ...
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... experienced the same sensations myself , and felt almost as if I had been newly couched , when by Mr. Wordsworth's conversation , I had been induced to re - examine with impartial strictness Grey's celebrated elegy . I had long before ...
... experienced the same sensations myself , and felt almost as if I had been newly couched , when by Mr. Wordsworth's conversation , I had been induced to re - examine with impartial strictness Grey's celebrated elegy . I had long before ...
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... experience ( and I should not need documents in abundance to prove my words , if I added ) a tried experience of twenty years , has taught me , that the original sin of my character consists in a careless indifference to public opinion ...
... experience ( and I should not need documents in abundance to prove my words , if I added ) a tried experience of twenty years , has taught me , that the original sin of my character consists in a careless indifference to public opinion ...
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