Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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A language which , like the English , is almost without cases , is indeed in its very genius unfitted for compounds . If a writer , every time a compounded word suggests itself to him , would seek for some other mode of expressing the ...
A language which , like the English , is almost without cases , is indeed in its very genius unfitted for compounds . If a writer , every time a compounded word suggests itself to him , would seek for some other mode of expressing the ...
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My judgment was stronger , than were my powers of realizing its dictates ; and the faults of my language , though indeed partly owing to a wrong choice of subjects , and the desire of giving a poetic colouring to abstract and ...
My judgment was stronger , than were my powers of realizing its dictates ; and the faults of my language , though indeed partly owing to a wrong choice of subjects , and the desire of giving a poetic colouring to abstract and ...
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7 pamphlet , were first made known and presented to me , by a school - fellow who had quitted us for the University , and who , during the whole time that he was in our first form ( or in our school language a GRECIAN ) had been my ...
7 pamphlet , were first made known and presented to me , by a school - fellow who had quitted us for the University , and who , during the whole time that he was in our first form ( or in our school language a GRECIAN ) had been my ...
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Meantime the matter and diction seemed to me characterized not so much by poetic thoughts , as by thoughts translated into the language of poetry . On this last point , I had occasion to render ...
Meantime the matter and diction seemed to me characterized not so much by poetic thoughts , as by thoughts translated into the language of poetry . On this last point , I had occasion to render ...
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Whatever might have been the case in the fifteenth century , when the use of the Latin tongue was so general among learned men , that Erasmus is said to have forgotten his native language ; yet in the present day it is not to be ...
Whatever might have been the case in the fifteenth century , when the use of the Latin tongue was so general among learned men , that Erasmus is said to have forgotten his native language ; yet in the present day it is not to be ...
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