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That I was thus prepared for the perusal of Mr. Bowles's sonnets and earlier poems , at once increased their influence , and my enthusiasm . The great works of past ages seem to a young man things of another race , in respect to which ...
That I was thus prepared for the perusal of Mr. Bowles's sonnets and earlier poems , at once increased their influence , and my enthusiasm . The great works of past ages seem to a young man things of another race , in respect to which ...
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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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Speaking of one whom he had celebrated , and contrasting the duration of his works with that of his personal existence , Shakspeare adds : “ Your name from hence immortal life shall have , Tho ' I once gone to all the world must die ...
Speaking of one whom he had celebrated , and contrasting the duration of his works with that of his personal existence , Shakspeare adds : “ Your name from hence immortal life shall have , Tho ' I once gone to all the world must die ...
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... respectable audiences at the royal institution , before Mr. Schlegel gave his lectures on the same subjects at Vienna , 1 times with undiminished admiration , and without once relecting , 34 those whom he deem'd most worthy of his .
... respectable audiences at the royal institution , before Mr. Schlegel gave his lectures on the same subjects at Vienna , 1 times with undiminished admiration , and without once relecting , 34 those whom he deem'd most worthy of his .
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But now , partly by the labours of successive poets , and in part by the more artificial state of society and social intercourse , language , mechanized as it were into a barrel - organ , supplies at once both instrument and tune .
But now , partly by the labours of successive poets , and in part by the more artificial state of society and social intercourse , language , mechanized as it were into a barrel - organ , supplies at once both instrument and tune .
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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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