Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, and Two Lay Sermons : I. The Statesman's Manual. II. Blessed are Ye that Sow Beside All WatersBell, 1905 - 440 pages |
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... knowledge of a poet , by whose works , year after year , I was so enthusiastically delighted and inspired . My earliest acquaintances will not have forgotten the undisciplined eagerness and impetuous zeal with which I laboured to make ...
... knowledge of a poet , by whose works , year after year , I was so enthusiastically delighted and inspired . My earliest acquaintances will not have forgotten the undisciplined eagerness and impetuous zeal with which I laboured to make ...
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... knowledge , will , and fate , Fixed fate , free will , forc - knowledge absolute , And found no end in wandering mazes lost . " This preposterous pursuit was , beyond doubt , injurious , both to my natural powers , and to the progress ...
... knowledge , will , and fate , Fixed fate , free will , forc - knowledge absolute , And found no end in wandering mazes lost . " This preposterous pursuit was , beyond doubt , injurious , both to my natural powers , and to the progress ...
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... knowledge , the first who combined natural thoughts with natural diction ; the first who reconciled the heart with the head . It is true , as I have before mentioned , that from diffidence in : ny own powers , I for a short time adopted ...
... knowledge , the first who combined natural thoughts with natural diction ; the first who reconciled the heart with the head . It is true , as I have before mentioned , that from diffidence in : ny own powers , I for a short time adopted ...
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... knowledge of others ) yet still want something of the creative , and self - sufficing power of absolute genius . For this reason , therefore , they are men of commanding genius . While the former rest content between thought and reality ...
... knowledge of others ) yet still want something of the creative , and self - sufficing power of absolute genius . For this reason , therefore , they are men of commanding genius . While the former rest content between thought and reality ...
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... knowledge that Milton , in his latter day , had his scorners and detractors ; and even in his day of youth and hope , that he had enemies would have been unknown to us , had they not been likewise the enemies of his country . I am well ...
... knowledge that Milton , in his latter day , had his scorners and detractors ; and even in his day of youth and hope , that he had enemies would have been unknown to us , had they not been likewise the enemies of his country . I am well ...
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Page 129 - During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 129 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself, as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 128 - 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...
Page 400 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 368 - For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace!
Page 123 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom 'All things proceed, and up to him return, < If not depraved from good ; created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Page 214 - And not a voice was idle : with the din Smitten, the precipices rang aloud ; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron ; while the distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy, not unnoticed, while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.
Page 212 - The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free : But we are pressed by heavy laws ; And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore.
Page 161 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 218 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.