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... my former passion for metaphysical investigations ; I labored at a solid foundation , on which permanently to ground my opinions , in the component faculties of the human mind itself , and their comparative dignity and importance .
... my former passion for metaphysical investigations ; I labored at a solid foundation , on which permanently to ground my opinions , in the component faculties of the human mind itself , and their comparative dignity and importance .
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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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... species besides that of bards ; but that the irritability of trade would soon reduce the resentments of poets into mere shadow - fights ( oxlopucgias ) in the comparison . Or is wealth the only rational object of human interest ?
... species besides that of bards ; but that the irritability of trade would soon reduce the resentments of poets into mere shadow - fights ( oxlopucgias ) in the comparison . Or is wealth the only rational object of human interest ?
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Or should we pass by all higher objects and motives , all disinterested benevolence , and even that ambition of lasting praise which is at once the crutch and ornament , which at once sup , ports and betrays , the infirmity of human ...
Or should we pass by all higher objects and motives , all disinterested benevolence , and even that ambition of lasting praise which is at once the crutch and ornament , which at once sup , ports and betrays , the infirmity of human ...
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... never bent ) from the genus , reading , to that comprehensive class characterized by the power of reconciling the two contrary yet co - existing propensities of human nature , namely ; indulgence of sloth , and hatred of vacancy .
... never bent ) from the genus , reading , to that comprehensive class characterized by the power of reconciling the two contrary yet co - existing propensities of human nature , namely ; indulgence of sloth , and hatred of vacancy .
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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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