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 Waters |
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... influence and my enthusiasm . The great works of past ages seem to a young man things of another race , in respect to which his faculties must remain passive and submiss , even as to the stars and mountains . But the writings of a con ...
... influence and my enthusiasm . The great works of past ages seem to a young man things of another race , in respect to which his faculties must remain passive and submiss , even as to the stars and mountains . But the writings of a con ...
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... influence of a style of poetry , so tender and yet so manly , so natural and real , and yet so dignified and harmonious , as the sonnets , & c . , of Mr. Bowles ! Well were it for me , perhaps , * The Christ's Hospital phrase , not for ...
... influence of a style of poetry , so tender and yet so manly , so natural and real , and yet so dignified and harmonious , as the sonnets , & c . , of Mr. Bowles ! Well were it for me , perhaps , * The Christ's Hospital phrase , not for ...
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... influences of the very pursuit which yet bears the blame of his irritability . How then are we to explain the easy credence generally given to дит OF REACH this charge , if the charge itself Biographia Literaria . 17.
... influences of the very pursuit which yet bears the blame of his irritability . How then are we to explain the easy credence generally given to дит OF REACH this charge , if the charge itself Biographia Literaria . 17.
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... influence it ; that praise and admiration have become yearly less and less desirable , except as marks of sympathy ; nay , that it is difficult and distressing to me to think with any interest , even about the sale and profit of my ...
... influence it ; that praise and admiration have become yearly less and less desirable , except as marks of sympathy ; nay , that it is difficult and distressing to me to think with any interest , even about the sale and profit of my ...
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... influences on taste , genius , and morality . In the Thalaba , the Madoc , and still more evidently , in the unique * Cid , the Kehama , and as last , so best , the Don Roderick , Southey has given abundant proof : " Se cogitâsse quám ...
... influences on taste , genius , and morality . In the Thalaba , the Madoc , and still more evidently , in the unique * Cid , the Kehama , and as last , so best , the Don Roderick , Southey has given abundant proof : " Se cogitâsse quám ...
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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 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 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 416 - 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 330 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature. For by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were created by him and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Page 384 - For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace!
Page 194 - LORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! Parents first season us : then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes. Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of glory ringing in our ears ; Without, our shame ; within, our consciences ; Angels and grace, eternal hopes and...
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.