Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volumes 1-2 |
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... common friend , a strong desire to be introduced to me , but hesitated in accepting my friend's immediate offer , on the score that he was , he must acknowledge , the author of a confounded severe epigram on my Ancient Mariner , which ...
... common friend , a strong desire to be introduced to me , but hesitated in accepting my friend's immediate offer , on the score that he was , he must acknowledge , the author of a confounded severe epigram on my Ancient Mariner , which ...
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... common , which they do not possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature , like damp hay , they heat and inflame by coacervation ; or , like bees , they become restless and irritable through the increased temperature of ...
... common , which they do not possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature , like damp hay , they heat and inflame by coacervation ; or , like bees , they become restless and irritable through the increased temperature of ...
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... common grave , When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie . Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes not yet created shall o'er - read ; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse , When all the breathers of this world are ...
... common grave , When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie . Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes not yet created shall o'er - read ; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse , When all the breathers of this world are ...
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... common , than for the many to mistake the general liveliness of his manner and language , whatever is the subject , for the effects of peculiar irritation from its accidental relation to himself . * * This is one instance , among many ...
... common , than for the many to mistake the general liveliness of his manner and language , whatever is the subject , for the effects of peculiar irritation from its accidental relation to himself . * * This is one instance , among many ...
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... common sense and all definite purpose . We should , therefore , transfer this spe- cies of amusement , ( if indeed those can be said to retire a musis , who were never in their company , or relaxation be attributable to those whose bows ...
... common sense and all definite purpose . We should , therefore , transfer this spe- cies of amusement , ( if indeed those can be said to retire a musis , who were never in their company , or relaxation be attributable to those whose bows ...
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Page 254 - While he was talking thus, the lonely place, The old Man's shape, and speech, all troubled me: In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace About the weary moors continually, Wandering about alone and silently. While I these thoughts within myself pursued, He, having made a pause, the same discourse renewed.
Page 274 - Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream...
Page 206 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Page 276 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise : But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized ; High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 132 - Keen Pangs of Love, awakening as a babe Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart ; And Fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of Hope; And Hope that scarce would know itself from Fear ; Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain, And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain...
Page 274 - By sheddings from the pinal umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries, ghostly shapes May meet at noontide — FEAR and trembling HOPE, SILENCE and FORESIGHT— DEATH, the skeleton, And TIME, the shadow — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Page 212 - 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.
Page 246 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay . In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Page 184 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page 239 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.