Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1, Issue 2W. Pickering, 1847 - Aesthetics |
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... ideas , ' and we know thus much about them , that it is very easy for any man or for every man to have them ; the ... ideas ; ' but the bee alone is a genius among flies , because he alone can put forth his ideas in the shape of honey ...
... ideas , ' and we know thus much about them , that it is very easy for any man or for every man to have them ; the ... ideas ; ' but the bee alone is a genius among flies , because he alone can put forth his ideas in the shape of honey ...
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... ideas of a system are born and matured in his mind , he evidently means , not merely that he possesses the mere material or elements of the system , but that the system itself , as to its leading points and most general positions , has ...
... ideas of a system are born and matured in his mind , he evidently means , not merely that he possesses the mere material or elements of the system , but that the system itself , as to its leading points and most general positions , has ...
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... ideas , I will so far avail myself of the illustration as to suggest that , in like manner , he who sought truth far and near , amid the pages of abstruse and neglected metaphysi- cians of former times , and discovered the merits of new ...
... ideas , I will so far avail myself of the illustration as to suggest that , in like manner , he who sought truth far and near , amid the pages of abstruse and neglected metaphysi- cians of former times , and discovered the merits of new ...
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... ideas " of Schelling's system were born and matured in his mind before he read the works of Schelling ; and if such a belief would do no great discredit to the head of any inquirer into this question , how much more honourable to his ...
... ideas " of Schelling's system were born and matured in his mind before he read the works of Schelling ; and if such a belief would do no great discredit to the head of any inquirer into this question , how much more honourable to his ...
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... ideas of a spiritual religion and for a pure and pregnant morality , the testimony to which every soul may find at home , if it looks deep into its own retirements . In reference to the present subject , however , I need only observe ...
... ideas of a spiritual religion and for a pure and pregnant morality , the testimony to which every soul may find at home , if it looks deep into its own retirements . In reference to the present subject , however , I need only observe ...
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Page 77 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 296 - 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 7 - Lute, harp, and lyre, Muse, Muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene were all an abomination to him. In fancy I can almost hear him now, exclaiming " Harp ? Harp ? Lyre ? Pen and ink, boy, you mean ! Muse, boy, Muse ? Your nurse's daughter, you mean ! Pierian spring ? Oh aye ! the cloister-pump, I suppose ! " Nay certain introductions, similes, and examples, were placed by name on a list of interdiction.
Page 295 - The IMAGINATION then I consider either as primary, or secondary. 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 7 - I learnt from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest, and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own as severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes.
Page 33 - Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a 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 dead. You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Page 15 - My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan; Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 325 - But our ideas being nothing but actual perceptions in the mind, which cease to be any thing when there is no perception of them, this laying up of our ideas in the repository of the memory signifies no more but this, that the mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had, with this additional perception annexed to them, that it has had them before.
Page 81 - The Fancy brings together images which have no connection natural or moral, but are yoked together by the poet by means of some accidental coincidence...
Page 19 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.