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"In literature," writes M. Paul Morillot, "even if quality is wanting, quantity has some significance," and though we may share Scott's abhorrence for the whole "Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy tribe" of novels, we cannot deny the authoress the distinction accorded her by the "Biographia Dramatica" of being for her time, at least "the most voluminous female writer this kingdom ever produced."
We need not take too literally Coleridge's declaration in the Biographia Literaria that one "main object of his in starting the Friend was to establish the philosophical distinction between the Reason and the Understanding."
First printed in the year 1739. Dr. Edward Young. Ambrose Philips, author of the Distrest Mother, &c. Edward Ward. See Dunciad, and Biographia Dramatica. Joseph Mitchell. See Biographia Dramatica. Published first in the Literary Magazine, No. iv. from July 15, to Aug. 15, 1756. This periodical work was published by Richardson, in Paternoster row, but was discontinued about two years after. Dr.
How the original "possessor" of this apparently assignable security would have longed to "feel Mr. Allsop's head"! Life at Highgate-Renewed activity-Publications and re-publications The Biographia Literaria The lectures of 1818-Coleridge as a Shakespearian critic.
Coleridge's description of Wordsworth's theory of poetic diction in the Biographia Literaria is famous. Walt Whitman's An American Primer, first published in the Atlantic for April, 1904, is a highly interesting contribution to the subject. No theoretical discussion, however, can supply the place of a close study, word by word, of poems in the classroom.
Murdoch; one prefixed to an edition of the Seasons, published at Edinburgh, which is compounded of both, with the addition of an anecdote of Quin's relieving Thomson from prison ; the abridgement of Murdoch's account of him, in the Biographia Britannica, and another abridgement of it in the Biographical Dictionary, enriched with Dr.
She will laugh thee dead, Or send thee to her hermitage with L ." The "Biographia," not satisfied with pointing out the son of Young, in that son's lifetime, as his father's Lorenzo, travels out of its way into the history of the son, and tells of his having been forbidden his college at Oxford for misbehaviour.
The poem is addressed to Coleridge; and apart from its poetical merits, is interesting as at once a counterpart and a supplement to that author's philosophical and beautiful criticism of the Lyrical Ballads in his Biographia Literaria. It completes the explanation, there given, of the peculiar constitution of Wordsworth's mind, and of his poetical theory.
A more interesting society was that for 'bettering the condition of the poor, started by Sir Thomas Bernard and Wilberforce in 1796. Biographia Literaria , ii. 327. I have thus noticed the most conspicuous of the contemporary problems which, as we shall see, provided the main tasks of Bentham and his followers.
To be born and die would not make all his history no, such a man would at least be secure of honourable mention in the Biographia Britannica as a writer moral political metaphysical."
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