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In the former , from Donne to COWLEY , we find the most fantastic out - of - the - way thoughts , but in the most pure and genuine mother English ; in the latter , the most obvious thoughts , in language the most fantastic and arbitrary ...
In the former , from Donne to COWLEY , we find the most fantastic out - of - the - way thoughts , but in the most pure and genuine mother English ; in the latter , the most obvious thoughts , in language the most fantastic and arbitrary ...
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In chastity of diction however , and the harmony of blank verse , Cowper leaves Thompson unmeasureably below bim ; yet still I feel the latter to have been the born poet . + « Of old things all are over old , 25 It is true, ...
In chastity of diction however , and the harmony of blank verse , Cowper leaves Thompson unmeasureably below bim ; yet still I feel the latter to have been the born poet . + « Of old things all are over old , 25 It is true, ...
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While the former rest content between thought and reality , as it were in an intermundium of which their own living spirit supplies the substance , and their imagination the evervarying form ; the latter must impress their ...
While the former rest content between thought and reality , as it were in an intermundium of which their own living spirit supplies the substance , and their imagination the evervarying form ; the latter must impress their ...
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... delicate , and , in comparison with his three great compeers , I had almost said , effeminate ; and this additionally saddened by the unjust persecution of Burleigh , and the severe calamities , which overwhelmed his latter days.
... delicate , and , in comparison with his three great compeers , I had almost said , effeminate ; and this additionally saddened by the unjust persecution of Burleigh , and the severe calamities , which overwhelmed his latter days.
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and the severe calamities , which overwhelmed his latter days . These causes have diffused over all his compositions " a melancholy grace , " and have drawn forth occasional strains , the more pathetic from their gentleness .
and the severe calamities , which overwhelmed his latter days . These causes have diffused over all his compositions " a melancholy grace , " and have drawn forth occasional strains , the more pathetic from their gentleness .
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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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