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... as because they were considered buds of hope , and promises of better works to come . The critics of that day , the most flattering , equally with the severest , con1 curred in objecting to them , obscurity , a general 4.
... as because they were considered buds of hope , and promises of better works to come . The critics of that day , the most flattering , equally with the severest , con1 curred in objecting to them , obscurity , a general 4.
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The same remark holds almost equally true , of the Love's Labour Lost , Romeo and Juliet , Venus and Adonis , and Lucrece compared with the Lear , Macbeth , Othello , and Hamlet of our great Dramatist . The rule for the admission of ...
The same remark holds almost equally true , of the Love's Labour Lost , Romeo and Juliet , Venus and Adonis , and Lucrece compared with the Lear , Macbeth , Othello , and Hamlet of our great Dramatist . The rule for the admission of ...
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Among the similies , there was , I remember , that of the Manchineel fruit , as suiting equally well with too many subjects ; in which however it yielded the palm at once to the example of Alexander and Clytus , which was equally good ...
Among the similies , there was , I remember , that of the Manchineel fruit , as suiting equally well with too many subjects ; in which however it yielded the palm at once to the example of Alexander and Clytus , which was equally good ...
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The circumstances in the time of Shakspeare , which it was equally out of his power to alter , were different , and such as , in my opinion , allowed a far wider sphere , and a deeper and more . human interest .
The circumstances in the time of Shakspeare , which it was equally out of his power to alter , were different , and such as , in my opinion , allowed a far wider sphere , and a deeper and more . human interest .
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... and image to image , is a component equally essential ; and in the due modification of each by the other the GENIUS itself consists ; so that it would be as just as fair to describe the earth , as in imminent danger of exorbitating ...
... and image to image , is a component equally essential ; and in the due modification of each by the other the GENIUS itself consists ; so that it would be as just as fair to describe the earth , as in imminent danger of exorbitating ...
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| Title | Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Volume 1 of Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Publisher | Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 23 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 296 pages |
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