Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volum 1Rest Fenner, 23, Paternoster Row, 1817 - 296 pàgines First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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Pàgina 8
... former , in the truth and nativeness , both of their thoughts and diction . At the same time that we were studying the Greek Tragic Poets , he made us read Shakspeare and Milton as lessons : and they were the lessons too , which ...
... former , in the truth and nativeness , both of their thoughts and diction . At the same time that we were studying the Greek Tragic Poets , he made us read Shakspeare and Milton as lessons : and they were the lessons too , which ...
Pàgina 22
... former passion for meta- physical investigations ; I labored at a solid foundation , on which permanently to ground my opinions , in the component faculties of the human mind itself , and their comparative dig- nity and importance ...
... former passion for meta- physical investigations ; I labored at a solid foundation , on which permanently to ground my opinions , in the component faculties of the human mind itself , and their comparative dig- nity and importance ...
Pàgina 23
... former , from DONNE to COWLEY , we find the most fan- tastic out - of - the - way thoughts , but in the most pure and genuine mother English ; in the latter , the most obvious thoughts , in language the most fantastic and arbitrary ...
... former , from DONNE to COWLEY , we find the most fan- tastic out - of - the - way thoughts , but in the most pure and genuine mother English ; in the latter , the most obvious thoughts , in language the most fantastic and arbitrary ...
Pàgina 25
... In chastity of diction however , and the harmony of blank verse , Cowper leaves Thompson unmeasureably below him ; yet still I feel the latter to have been the born poet . at least a remnant of the former leaven , and 25.
... In chastity of diction however , and the harmony of blank verse , Cowper leaves Thompson unmeasureably below him ; yet still I feel the latter to have been the born poet . at least a remnant of the former leaven , and 25.
Pàgina 26
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. at least a remnant of the former leaven , and among the many who have done me the honor of putting my poems in the same class with those of my betters , the one or two , who have pretended to bring examples of ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. at least a remnant of the former leaven , and among the many who have done me the honor of putting my poems in the same class with those of my betters , the one or two , who have pretended to bring examples of ...
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Pàgina 220 - Keen Pangs of Love, awakening as a babe Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart ; And Fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of Hope; And Hope that scarce would know itself from Fear ; Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain, And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain...
Pàgina 296 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Pàgina 19 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Pàgina 184 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Pàgina 124 - ... wins its way up against the stream, by alternate pulses of active and passive motion, now resisting the current, and now yielding to it in order to gather strength and a momentary fulcrum for a further propulsion. This is no unapt emblem of the mind's self-experience in the act of thinking.
Pàgina 9 - In our own English compositions, (at least for the last three years of our school education), he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words.
Pàgina 160 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding ; whence the Soul Reason receives, and Reason is her being, Discursive, or Intuitive: Discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Pàgina 17 - Well were it for me, perhaps, had I never relapsed into the same mental disease, if I had continued to pluck the flower and reap the harvest from the cultivated surface. instead of delving in the unwholesome quicksilver mines of metaphysic depths.
Pàgina 83 - ... arbitrary and illogical phrases, at once hackneyed, and fantastic, which hold so distinguished a place in the technique of ordinary poetry, and will, more or less, alloy the earlier poems of the truest genius, unless the attention has been specifically directed to their worthlessness and incongruity...
Pàgina 227 - It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.