Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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Little call as he may have to instruct others , he wishes nevertheless to open out his heart to such as he either knows or hopes to be of like mind with himself , but who are widely scattered in the world : he wishes to knit anew his ...
Little call as he may have to instruct others , he wishes nevertheless to open out his heart to such as he either knows or hopes to be of like mind with himself , but who are widely scattered in the world : he wishes to knit anew his ...
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... present work - Reception of the Author's first publication - The discipline of his taste at school - The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. Pope .
... present work - Reception of the Author's first publication - The discipline of his taste at school - The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. Pope .
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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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to a man , whose severities , even now , not seldom furnish the dreams , by which the blind fancy would fain interpret to the mind the painful sensations of distempered sleep ; but neither lessen nor dim the deep sense of my moral and ...
to a man , whose severities , even now , not seldom furnish the dreams , by which the blind fancy would fain interpret to the mind the painful sensations of distempered sleep ; but neither lessen nor dim the deep sense of my moral and ...
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At a very premature age , even before my fifteenth year , I had be wildered myself in metaphysicks , and in theolo gical controversy . Nothing else pleased me , History , and particular facts , lost all interest in my mind .
At a very premature age , even before my fifteenth year , I had be wildered myself in metaphysicks , and in theolo gical controversy . Nothing else pleased me , History , and particular facts , lost all interest in my mind .
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