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... hand , and used my best efforts to tame the swell and glitter both of thought and dic- tion ; though in truth , these parasite plants of youthful poetry had insinuated themselves into my longer poems with such intricacy of union , that ...
... hand , and used my best efforts to tame the swell and glitter both of thought and dic- tion ; though in truth , these parasite plants of youthful poetry had insinuated themselves into my longer poems with such intricacy of union , that ...
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... hand , than to alter a word , or the position of a word , in Milton or Shakspeare , ( in their most important works at least ) without making the author say something else , or something worse , than he does say . One great distinction ...
... hand , than to alter a word , or the position of a word , in Milton or Shakspeare , ( in their most important works at least ) without making the author say something else , or something worse , than he does say . One great distinction ...
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... and accidents , when by means of meditation they have passed into thoughts . The sanity of the mind is be- tween superstition with fanaticism on the one hand ; and enthusiasm with indifference and a diseased slowness 30.
... and accidents , when by means of meditation they have passed into thoughts . The sanity of the mind is be- tween superstition with fanaticism on the one hand ; and enthusiasm with indifference and a diseased slowness 30.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. hand ; and enthusiasm with indifference and a diseased slowness to action on the other . For the conceptions of the mind may be so vivid and adequate , as to preclude that impulse to the realizing of them , which ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. hand ; and enthusiasm with indifference and a diseased slowness to action on the other . For the conceptions of the mind may be so vivid and adequate , as to preclude that impulse to the realizing of them , which ...
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... " Argue not Against Heaven's hand or will , nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bore up and steer'd Right onward . " From others only do we derive our knowledge that Milton D2 35 and the severe calamities, which overwhelmed ...
... " Argue not Against Heaven's hand or will , nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bore up and steer'd Right onward . " From others only do we derive our knowledge that Milton D2 35 and the severe calamities, which overwhelmed ...
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