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... is hazarded , that it , at least , be one word , not two words made one by mere virtue of the printer's hyphen . A language which , like the English , is almost without cases , is indeed in its very genius unfitted for compounds .
... is hazarded , that it , at least , be one word , not two words made one by mere virtue of the printer's hyphen . A language which , like the English , is almost without cases , is indeed in its very genius unfitted for compounds .
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ܪ imitation it depended wholly in the composi tor's putting , or not putting a small Capital , both in this , and in many other passages of the same poet , whether the words should be personifications , or mere abstracts .
ܪ imitation it depended wholly in the composi tor's putting , or not putting a small Capital , both in this , and in many other passages of the same poet , whether the words should be personifications , or mere abstracts .
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... or association , or in any worthy feeling , are so far vicious in their diction . Be it however observed , that I excluded from the list of worthy feelings , the pleasure derived from mere novelty , in 22.
... or association , or in any worthy feeling , are so far vicious in their diction . Be it however observed , that I excluded from the list of worthy feelings , the pleasure derived from mere novelty , in 22.
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thy feelings , the pleasure derived from mere novelty , in the reader , and the desire of exciting wonderment at his powers in the author : Oftentimes since then , in perusing French tragedies , I have fancied two marks of admiration at ...
thy feelings , the pleasure derived from mere novelty , in the reader , and the desire of exciting wonderment at his powers in the author : Oftentimes since then , in perusing French tragedies , I have fancied two marks of admiration at ...
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For the conceptions of the mind may be so vivid and adequate , as to preclude that impulse to the realizing of them , which is strongest and most restless in those , who possess more than mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating ...
For the conceptions of the mind may be so vivid and adequate , as to preclude that impulse to the realizing of them , which is strongest and most restless in those , who possess more than mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating ...
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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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