Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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... because more subtle , more complex , and dependent on more , and more fugitive causes . In the truly great poets , he would say , there is a reason assignable , not only for every word , but for the position of every word ...
... because more subtle , more complex , and dependent on more , and more fugitive causes . In the truly great poets , he would say , there is a reason assignable , not only for every word , but for the position of every word ...
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In the same essay too , I assigned sundry reasons , chiefly drawn from a comparison of passages in the Latin poets with the original Greek , from which they were borrowed , for the preference of Collins's odes to those of Gray ; and of ...
In the same essay too , I assigned sundry reasons , chiefly drawn from a comparison of passages in the Latin poets with the original Greek , from which they were borrowed , for the preference of Collins's odes to those of Gray ; and of ...
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For this reason therefore , they are men of commanding genius . While the former rest content between thought and reality , as it were in an intermundium of which their own living spirit supplies the substance , and their imagination ...
For this reason therefore , they are men of commanding genius . While the former rest content between thought and reality , as it were in an intermundium of which their own living spirit supplies the substance , and their imagination ...
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But it is no less an essential mark of true genius , that its sensibility is excited by any other cause more powerfully , than by its own personal interests ; for this plain reason , that the man of genius lives most in the ideal world ...
But it is no less an essential mark of true genius , that its sensibility is excited by any other cause more powerfully , than by its own personal interests ; for this plain reason , that the man of genius lives most in the ideal world ...
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Nay , where I had reason to suppose my convictions fundamentally different , it has been my habit , and I may add , the impulse of my nature , to assign the grounds of my belief , rather than the belief itself ; and not to express ...
Nay , where I had reason to suppose my convictions fundamentally different , it has been my habit , and I may add , the impulse of my nature , to assign the grounds of my belief , rather than the belief itself ; and not to express ...
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