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 WatersG. Bell, 1898 - 440 pages |
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... intellect among the most sacred of the claims of gratitude . A valuable thought , or a particular train of thoughts , gives me additional pleasure when I can safely refer and attribute it to the conversation or correspondence of another ...
... intellect among the most sacred of the claims of gratitude . A valuable thought , or a particular train of thoughts , gives me additional pleasure when I can safely refer and attribute it to the conversation or correspondence of another ...
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... intellect , as in the Rape of the Lock , or the Essay on Man ; nay , when it was a consecutive narration , as in that astonishing product of match- less talent and ingenuity , Pope's Translation of the Iliad ; still a point was looked ...
... intellect , as in the Rape of the Lock , or the Essay on Man ; nay , when it was a consecutive narration , as in that astonishing product of match- less talent and ingenuity , Pope's Translation of the Iliad ; still a point was looked ...
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... intellect and to the starts of wit ; the moderns to the glare and glitter of a perpetual yet broken and heterogeneous imagery , or rather to an amphibious something , made up , half of image and half of abstract * meaning . The one ...
... intellect and to the starts of wit ; the moderns to the glare and glitter of a perpetual yet broken and heterogeneous imagery , or rather to an amphibious something , made up , half of image and half of abstract * meaning . The one ...
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... intellect , and intel- lectual industry ? Prudence itself would command us to show , even if defect or diversion of natural sensibility had prevented us from feeling , a due interest and qualified anxiety for the offspring and ...
... intellect , and intel- lectual industry ? Prudence itself would command us to show , even if defect or diversion of natural sensibility had prevented us from feeling , a due interest and qualified anxiety for the offspring and ...
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... intellect , they felt very positive , but were not quite certain , that he might not be in the right , and they themselves in the wrong ; an unquiet state of mind , which seeks alleviation by quarrelling with the occasion of it , and by ...
... intellect , they felt very positive , but were not quite certain , that he might not be in the right , and they themselves in the wrong ; an unquiet state of mind , which seeks alleviation by quarrelling with the occasion of it , and by ...
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Page 150 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 333 - For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith...
Page 144 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Page 166 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Page 145 - Mr. 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 163 - ... because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated; because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings, and, from the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and are more durable; and, lastly, because in that condition the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Page 177 - Say there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean 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 168 - The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived...
Page 144 - 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 194 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.