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... of chaste and manly diction , but they were cold , and , if I may so express it , only dead - coloured ; while in the best of Warton's there is a stiffness , which too often gives them the appearance of imitations from the Greek .
... of chaste and manly diction , but they were cold , and , if I may so express it , only dead - coloured ; while in the best of Warton's there is a stiffness , which too often gives them the appearance of imitations from the Greek .
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Indignation at literary wrongs , I leave to men born under happier stars . I cannot afford it . But so far from condemning those who can , I deem it a writer's duty , and think it creditable to his heart , to feel and express a ...
Indignation at literary wrongs , I leave to men born under happier stars . I cannot afford it . But so far from condemning those who can , I deem it a writer's duty , and think it creditable to his heart , to feel and express a ...
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Nay , where I had reason to suppose my convictions fundamentally different , it has been my habit , and I may add , the impulse of my nature , to assign the grounds of my belief , rather than the belief itself ; and not to express ...
Nay , where I had reason to suppose my convictions fundamentally different , it has been my habit , and I may add , the impulse of my nature , to assign the grounds of my belief , rather than the belief itself ; and not to express ...
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Phantasia , it is to be noticed , is employed by Vives to express the mental power of comprehension , or the active function of the mind ; and imaginatio for the receptivity ( vis receptiva ) of impressions , or for the passive ...
Phantasia , it is to be noticed , is employed by Vives to express the mental power of comprehension , or the active function of the mind ; and imaginatio for the receptivity ( vis receptiva ) of impressions , or for the passive ...
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He uses indeed the word Koryckis , to express what we call represenΚινησεις tations or ideas , but he carefully distinguishes them from material motion , designating the latter always by annexing the words Ey TomW , or On the contrary ...
He uses indeed the word Koryckis , to express what we call represenΚινησεις tations or ideas , but he carefully distinguishes them from material motion , designating the latter always by annexing the words Ey TomW , or On the contrary ...
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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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