Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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It will be found , that the least of what I have written concerns myself personally . I have used the narration chiefly for the purpose of giving a continuity to the work , in part for the sake of the miscellaneous reflections suggested ...
It will be found , that the least of what I have written concerns myself personally . I have used the narration chiefly for the purpose of giving a continuity to the work , in part for the sake of the miscellaneous reflections suggested ...
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The first is the fault which a writer is the least able to detect in his own compositions : and my mind was not then sufficiently disciplined to receive the authority of others , as a substitute for my own conviction .
The first is the fault which a writer is the least able to detect in his own compositions : and my mind was not then sufficiently disciplined to receive the authority of others , as a substitute for my own conviction .
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... why it would not have answered the same purpose ; and wherein consisted the peculiar fitness of the word in the original text . In our own English compositions ( at least for the last three years of our school education ) he I 8 1 .
... why it would not have answered the same purpose ; and wherein consisted the peculiar fitness of the word in the original text . In our own English compositions ( at least for the last three years of our school education ) he I 8 1 .
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Yet our classical knowledge was the least of the good gifts , which we derived from his zealous and conscientious tutorage . He is now gone to his final reward , full of years , and full of honors , even of those honors , which were ...
Yet our classical knowledge was the least of the good gifts , which we derived from his zealous and conscientious tutorage . He is now gone to his final reward , full of years , and full of honors , even of those honors , which were ...
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... ( in their most important works at least ) without making the author say something else , or something worse , than he does say . One great distinction , I appeared to myself to see plainly , between , even the characteristic faults ...
... ( in their most important works at least ) without making the author say something else , or something worse , than he does say . One great distinction , I appeared to myself to see plainly , between , even the characteristic faults ...
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