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Among those with whom I conversed , there were , of course , very many who had formed their taste , and their notions of poetry , from the writings of Mr. Pope and his followers : or to speak more generally , in that school of French ...
Among those with whom I conversed , there were , of course , very many who had formed their taste , and their notions of poetry , from the writings of Mr. Pope and his followers : or to speak more generally , in that school of French ...
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... as belonging to any common school , but that of good sense confirmed by the long - established models of the best times of Greece , Rome , Italy , and England ; and still more groundless the notion , that Mr. Southey ( for as to ...
... as belonging to any common school , but that of good sense confirmed by the long - established models of the best times of Greece , Rome , Italy , and England ; and still more groundless the notion , that Mr. Southey ( for as to ...
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... which is rendered possible by the whole attention being successively absorbed in each singly , so as not to notice the interjacent notion , “ changed " which by its incongruity with the first thought , “ I , ” constitutes the bull .
... which is rendered possible by the whole attention being successively absorbed in each singly , so as not to notice the interjacent notion , “ changed " which by its incongruity with the first thought , “ I , ” constitutes the bull .
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who have taken so much pains to render me ridiculous for a perversion of taste , and have supported the charge by attributing strange notions to me on no other authority than their own conjectures , owe it to themselves as well as to me ...
who have taken so much pains to render me ridiculous for a perversion of taste , and have supported the charge by attributing strange notions to me on no other authority than their own conjectures , owe it to themselves as well as to me ...
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... as the animal spirits perform for them under the notion of hollow tubes ( as Hartley teaches ) -nor finally , ( with yet more recent dreamers ) of chemical compositions by elective affinity , or of an electric light at once > the ...
... as the animal spirits perform for them under the notion of hollow tubes ( as Hartley teaches ) -nor finally , ( with yet more recent dreamers ) of chemical compositions by elective affinity , or of an electric light at once > the ...
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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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