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to a man , whose severities , even now , not seldom furnish the dreams , by which the blind fancy would fain interpret to the mind the painful sensations of distempered sleep ; but neither lessen nor dim the deep sense of my moral and ...
to a man , whose severities , even now , not seldom furnish the dreams , by which the blind fancy would fain interpret to the mind the painful sensations of distempered sleep ; but neither lessen nor dim the deep sense of my moral and ...
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... particularly in his satires and moral essays , for the purpose of comparing them with his translation of Homer , which , I do not stand alone in re . garding as the main source of our pseudo - poetic diction .
... particularly in his satires and moral essays , for the purpose of comparing them with his translation of Homer , which , I do not stand alone in re . garding as the main source of our pseudo - poetic diction .
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... justest censures kindle at once into violent and undisciplined abuse till the acute disease changing into chronical , the more deadly as the less violent , they become the fit instruments of literary detraction , and moral slander .
... justest censures kindle at once into violent and undisciplined abuse till the acute disease changing into chronical , the more deadly as the less violent , they become the fit instruments of literary detraction , and moral slander .
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It might correct the moral feelings of a numerous class of readers , to suppose a Review set on foot , the object of which was to criticise all the chief works presented to the public by our ribbon - weavers , calico - printers ...
It might correct the moral feelings of a numerous class of readers , to suppose a Review set on foot , the object of which was to criticise all the chief works presented to the public by our ribbon - weavers , calico - printers ...
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... to himself and his family , if only we except bis moral character , can have fairer claims to his protection , or more authorise acts of self - defence , than the elaborate products of his intellect , and intellectual industry ?
... to himself and his family , if only we except bis moral character , can have fairer claims to his protection , or more authorise acts of self - defence , than the elaborate products of his intellect , and intellectual industry ?
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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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