Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2R. Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... imitations of them ; they must have sunk at once, a dead weight, into the slough of oblivion, and have dragged the preface along with them. But year after year increased the number of Mr. Wordworth's admirers. They were found too not in ...
... imitations of them ; they must have sunk at once, a dead weight, into the slough of oblivion, and have dragged the preface along with them. But year after year increased the number of Mr. Wordworth's admirers. They were found too not in ...
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... imitations of them ; they must have sunk at once , a dead weight , into the slough of oblivion , and have dragged the preface along with them . But year after year increased the number of Mr. Wordworth's ad- mirers . They were found too ...
... imitations of them ; they must have sunk at once , a dead weight , into the slough of oblivion , and have dragged the preface along with them . But year after year increased the number of Mr. Wordworth's ad- mirers . They were found too ...
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... imitation of the rude unpolished man- ners and discourse of their inferiors . For the pleasure so derived may be traced to three ex- citing causes . The first is the naturalness , in fact , of the things represented . The second is the ...
... imitation of the rude unpolished man- ners and discourse of their inferiors . For the pleasure so derived may be traced to three ex- citing causes . The first is the naturalness , in fact , of the things represented . The second is the ...
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... remark even to dramatic poetry , if indeed the Nurse itself can be deemed altogether a case in point ) it is not possible to imitate truly a dull and garrulous discourser , without repeating the ef- fects of dulness 45.
... remark even to dramatic poetry , if indeed the Nurse itself can be deemed altogether a case in point ) it is not possible to imitate truly a dull and garrulous discourser , without repeating the ef- fects of dulness 45.
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... imitation and passive remembrance of what they hear from their religious instructors and other superiors , the most uneducated share in the harvest which they neither sowed or reaped . If the history of the phrases in hourly currency ...
... imitation and passive remembrance of what they hear from their religious instructors and other superiors , the most uneducated share in the harvest which they neither sowed or reaped . If the history of the phrases in hourly currency ...
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