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rogeneous imagery , or rather to an amphibious something , made up , half of image , and half of abstract * meaning . The one sacrificed the heart to the head ; the other both heart and head to point and drapery .
rogeneous imagery , or rather to an amphibious something , made up , half of image , and half of abstract * meaning . The one sacrificed the heart to the head ; the other both heart and head to point and drapery .
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... but at the saine time acknowledged ( so much had they been accustomed , in reading poetry , to receive pleasure from the separate images and phrases successively , without asking themselves whether the collective meaning was sense ...
... but at the saine time acknowledged ( so much had they been accustomed , in reading poetry , to receive pleasure from the separate images and phrases successively , without asking themselves whether the collective meaning was sense ...
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... frequent laughter ; listening to a series of jests and humourous anecdotes , as when ( so to modernise the learned Saracen's meaning ) one man's droll story of an Irishman inevitably occasions another's droll story of a Scotchman ...
... frequent laughter ; listening to a series of jests and humourous anecdotes , as when ( so to modernise the learned Saracen's meaning ) one man's droll story of an Irishman inevitably occasions another's droll story of a Scotchman ...
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... I might furnish no possible pretext for the unthinking to misconstrue , or the malignant to misapply my words , and having stampt their own meaning on them , to pass them as current coin in the marts of garrulity or detraction .
... I might furnish no possible pretext for the unthinking to misconstrue , or the malignant to misapply my words , and having stampt their own meaning on them , to pass them as current coin in the marts of garrulity or detraction .
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... distinct meaning ; sometimes , namely , signifying the act of self - consciousness , sometimes the external image in and by which the mind represents that act to itself , the result and symbol of its individuality .
... distinct meaning ; sometimes , namely , signifying the act of self - consciousness , sometimes the external image in and by which the mind represents that act to itself , the result and symbol of its individuality .
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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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