Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and OpinionsRest Fenner, 1817 - 309 páginas |
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... mere virtue of the printer's hyphen . 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 ...
... mere virtue of the printer's hyphen . 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 ...
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... mere abstracts . I mention this , because in referring various lines in Gray to their original in Shakspeare and Milton ; and in the clear perception how completely all the propriety was lost in the transfer ; I was , at that early ...
... mere abstracts . I mention this , because in referring various lines in Gray to their original in Shakspeare and Milton ; and in the clear perception how completely all the propriety was lost in the transfer ; I was , at that early ...
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... either in sense , or association , or in any worthy feeling , are so far vicious in their diction . Be it however observed , that I excluded from the list of wore thy feelings , the pleasure derived from mere novelty , 22.
... either in sense , or association , or in any worthy feeling , are so far vicious in their diction . Be it however observed , that I excluded from the list of wore thy feelings , the pleasure derived from mere novelty , 22.
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... mere novelty , in the reader , and the desire of exciting wonderment at his powers in the author . Oftentimes since then , in perusing French tragedies , I have fancied two marks of admiration at the end of each line , as hieroglyphics ...
... mere novelty , in the reader , and the desire of exciting wonderment at his powers in the author . Oftentimes since then , in perusing French tragedies , I have fancied two marks of admiration at the end of each line , as hieroglyphics ...
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... mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of others ) yet still want something of the creative , and selfsufficing power of absolute Genius . For this reason therefore , they are men of commanding genius ...
... mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of others ) yet still want something of the creative , and selfsufficing power of absolute Genius . For this reason therefore , they are men of commanding genius ...
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