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1 CHAPTER I. - The motives of the present work - Reception of the Author's first publication — The discipline of his taste at school — The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the ...
1 CHAPTER I. - The motives of the present work - Reception of the Author's first publication — The discipline of his taste at school — The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the ...
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But of the objects , which I proposed to myself , it was not the least important to effect , as far as possible , a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction : and at the same time to ...
But of the objects , which I proposed to myself , it was not the least important to effect , as far as possible , a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction : and at the same time to ...
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From causes , which this is not the place to investigate , no models of past times , however perfect , can have the same vivid effect on the youthful mind , as the productions of contemporary genius . The Discipline , my mind had ...
From causes , which this is not the place to investigate , no models of past times , however perfect , can have the same vivid effect on the youthful mind , as the productions of contemporary genius . The Discipline , my mind had ...
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The reader must make himself acquainted with the general style of composition that was at that time deemed poetry , in order to understand and account for the effect produced on me by the SONNETS , the MoNoDy at MATLOCK , and the Hope ...
The reader must make himself acquainted with the general style of composition that was at that time deemed poetry , in order to understand and account for the effect produced on me by the SONNETS , the MoNoDy at MATLOCK , and the Hope ...
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... lamentable effects in the world of letters , and such as are abundant to explain , tho ' by no means to justify , the contempt with which the best grounded complaints of injured genius are rejected as frivolous , or entertained as ...
... lamentable effects in the world of letters , and such as are abundant to explain , tho ' by no means to justify , the contempt with which the best grounded complaints of injured genius are rejected as frivolous , or entertained as ...
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