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Page 39
... and almost word by word , the popular lines , “ As when the moon , resplendent lamp of light , " & c . much in the same way as has been since done , in an excellent article on Chalmers's British Poets in the Quarterly Review .
... and almost word by word , the popular lines , “ As when the moon , resplendent lamp of light , " & c . much in the same way as has been since done , in an excellent article on Chalmers's British Poets in the Quarterly Review .
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... from epistolary ease and graceful narrative , to the austere and impetuous moral declamation ; from the pastoral claims and wild streaming lights of the " Thalaba , ” in which sentiment and imagery have given permanence even to the ...
... from epistolary ease and graceful narrative , to the austere and impetuous moral declamation ; from the pastoral claims and wild streaming lights of the " Thalaba , ” in which sentiment and imagery have given permanence even to the ...
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As son , brother , husband , father , master , friend , he moves with firm yet light steps , alike unostentatious , and alike exemplary . As a writer , he has uniformly made his F 3 69 and methodical tenor of his daily labours, which .
As son , brother , husband , father , master , friend , he moves with firm yet light steps , alike unostentatious , and alike exemplary . As a writer , he has uniformly made his F 3 69 and methodical tenor of his daily labours, which .
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... pretends to have found immorality or indeli- , cacy ; and the poems therefore , at the worst , ; could only be regarded as so many light or inferior coins in a roleau of gold , not as so much alloy in a weight of bullion .
... pretends to have found immorality or indeli- , cacy ; and the poems therefore , at the worst , ; could only be regarded as so many light or inferior coins in a roleau of gold , not as so much alloy in a weight of bullion .
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... and hid in mist from hour to hour , All day the floods a deepening murmur pour ; The sky is veiled , and every cheerful sight : Dark is the region as with coming night ; And yet what frequent bursts of overpowering light !
... and hid in mist from hour to hour , All day the floods a deepening murmur pour ; The sky is veiled , and every cheerful sight : Dark is the region as with coming night ; And yet what frequent bursts of overpowering light !
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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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