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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... result of all my reading and meditation , I abstracted two critical aphorisms , deeming them to comprise the conditions and criteria of poetic style ; first , that not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the ...
... result of all my reading and meditation , I abstracted two critical aphorisms , deeming them to comprise the conditions and criteria of poetic style ; first , that not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the ...
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... result of choice after full delibe- ration . Thus the poems , admitted by all as excellent , joined with those which had pleased the far greater number , though they formed two - thirds of the whole work , instead of being deemed ( as ...
... result of choice after full delibe- ration . Thus the poems , admitted by all as excellent , joined with those which had pleased the far greater number , though they formed two - thirds of the whole work , instead of being deemed ( as ...
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... result would have been the same ; the parts which had been covered by the number of the black spots on the one day , would be found equally albo lapida notata on the succeeding . However this may be , it is assuredly hard and unjust to ...
... result would have been the same ; the parts which had been covered by the number of the black spots on the one day , would be found equally albo lapida notata on the succeeding . However this may be , it is assuredly hard and unjust to ...
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... results per- spicuous , and the driest attractive ) , affirmed in the lectures , de- livered by him at Lincoln's Inn Hall , that the law of association as established in the contemporaneity of the original impressions , formed the basis ...
... results per- spicuous , and the driest attractive ) , affirmed in the lectures , de- livered by him at Lincoln's Inn Hall , that the law of association as established in the contemporaneity of the original impressions , formed the basis ...
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... results a correspondent motion of the innermost and subtlest organs . This motion constitutes a representation , and ... result will follow when one only of the two ideas has been represented by the senses , and the other by the memory ...
... results a correspondent motion of the innermost and subtlest organs . This motion constitutes a representation , and ... result will follow when one only of the two ideas has been represented by the senses , and the other by the memory ...
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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.