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did not demand a degree of attention unsuitable to the nature and objects of poetry . This remark however applies chiefly , though not exclusively to the Religious Musings . The remainder of the charge I admitted to its full extent ...
did not demand a degree of attention unsuitable to the nature and objects of poetry . This remark however applies chiefly , though not exclusively to the Religious Musings . The remainder of the charge I admitted to its full extent ...
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I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty , provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question . The controversies , occasioned by my ...
I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty , provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question . The controversies , occasioned by my ...
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... the first of which had for its object to excite a good - natured laugh at the spirit of doleful egotism , and at the recurrence of favorite phrases , with the double defect of being at once trite , and licentious .
... the first of which had for its object to excite a good - natured laugh at the spirit of doleful egotism , and at the recurrence of favorite phrases , with the double defect of being at once trite , and licentious .
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MAD Ox . But where the ideas are vivid , and there exists an endless power of combining and modifying them , the feelings and affections blend more easily and intimately with these ideal creations , than with the objects of the senses ...
MAD Ox . But where the ideas are vivid , and there exists an endless power of combining and modifying them , the feelings and affections blend more easily and intimately with these ideal creations , than with the objects of the senses ...
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But men , whose dearest wishes are fixed on objects wholly out of their own power , become in all cases more or less impatient and prone to anger . Besides , though it may be paradoxical to assert , that a man can know one thing ...
But men , whose dearest wishes are fixed on objects wholly out of their own power , become in all cases more or less impatient and prone to anger . Besides , though it may be paradoxical to assert , that a man can know one thing ...
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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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