unicity

Updated: May 8, 2025

It is in these two collections that Lamb presents himself in the character which alone can confer on any man the first rank in literature, the character of unicity of being some one and giving something which no one before him has given or has been.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

This unicity we strive, not to 'express', for that is impossible; but to designate, by the nearest, though inadequate, analogy, 'Begotten'. Ib. p. 133.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.