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... when it was a consecutive narration , as in that astonishing product of matchless talent and ingenuity , Pope's Translation of the Iliad ; still a point was looked for at the end of each second line , and the whole was as it were a ...
... when it was a consecutive narration , as in that astonishing product of matchless talent and ingenuity , Pope's Translation of the Iliad ; still a point was looked for at the end of each second line , and the whole was as it were a ...
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I mention this , because in referring various lines in Gray to their original in Shakspeare and Milton ; and in ! the clear perception how completely all the propriety was lost in the transfer ; I was , at that early period , led to a ...
I mention this , because in referring various lines in Gray to their original in Shakspeare and Milton ; and in ! the clear perception how completely all the propriety was lost in the transfer ; I was , at that early period , led to a ...
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1 1 and then pick out , from Virgil , Horace , Ovid , or perhaps more compendiously from his * Gradus , halves and quarters of lines , in which to embody them . I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from ...
1 1 and then pick out , from Virgil , Horace , Ovid , or perhaps more compendiously from his * Gradus , halves and quarters of lines , in which to embody them . I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from ...
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... with the greatest pleasure , possesses the genuine power , and claims the name of essential poetry . Second , that whatever lines can be translated into other words of the same language , without diminution of their significance ...
... with the greatest pleasure , possesses the genuine power , and claims the name of essential poetry . Second , that whatever lines can be translated into other words of the same language , without diminution of their significance ...
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... wonderment at his powers in the author : Oftentimes since then , in perusing French tragedies , I have fancied two marks of admiration at the end of each line , as hieroglyphics of the author's own admiration at his own cleverness .
... wonderment at his powers in the author : Oftentimes since then , in perusing French tragedies , I have fancied two marks of admiration at the end of each line , as hieroglyphics of the author's own admiration at his own cleverness .
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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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