Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and OpinionsRest Fenner, 1817 - 309 páginas |
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... kind , or an index expurgatorius of certain well known and ever returning phrases , both introductory , and transitional , including the large assortment of modest egotisms , and flattering illeisms , & c . & c . might be hung up in our ...
... kind , or an index expurgatorius of certain well known and ever returning phrases , both introductory , and transitional , including the large assortment of modest egotisms , and flattering illeisms , & c . & c . might be hung up in our ...
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... kind , and with the presumption of youth withheld from its masters the legitimate name of poets . I saw , that the excellence of this kind consisted in just and acute observations on men and manners in an artificial state of society ...
... kind , and with the presumption of youth withheld from its masters the legitimate name of poets . I saw , that the excellence of this kind consisted in just and acute observations on men and manners in an artificial state of society ...
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... kind , a close examination will often detect , that the irritability , which has been attributed to the author's genius as its cause , did really originate in an ill conformation of body , obtuse pain , or constitutional defect of ...
... kind , a close examination will often detect , that the irritability , which has been attributed to the author's genius as its cause , did really originate in an ill conformation of body , obtuse pain , or constitutional defect of ...
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... kind in our language ( if we except a few chapters of the old translation of Froissart ) none , which uniting the charms of romance and history , keeps the imagi nation so constantly on the wing , and yet leaves so much for after ...
... kind in our language ( if we except a few chapters of the old translation of Froissart ) none , which uniting the charms of romance and history , keeps the imagi nation so constantly on the wing , and yet leaves so much for after ...
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... kind , which as was before observed , seem to have won universal praise . This fact of itself would have made me diffident in my censures , had not a still stronger ground been furnished by the strange contrast of the heat and long ...
... kind , which as was before observed , seem to have won universal praise . This fact of itself would have made me diffident in my censures , had not a still stronger ground been furnished by the strange contrast of the heat and long ...
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