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... himself of the synonimes to the Homer of Didymus , he made us attempt to show , with regard to each , why it would not have answered the same purpose ; and wherein consisted the peculiar fitness of the word in the original text .
... himself of the synonimes to the Homer of Didymus , he made us attempt to show , with regard to each , why it would not have answered the same purpose ; and wherein consisted the peculiar fitness of the word in the original text .
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... there was a long and blessed interval , during which my natural faculties were allowed to expand , and my original tendencies to develope themselves : my fancy , and the love of nature , and the sense of beauty in forms and sounds .
... there was a long and blessed interval , during which my natural faculties were allowed to expand , and my original tendencies to develope themselves : my fancy , and the love of nature , and the sense of beauty in forms and sounds .
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In the same essay too , I assigned sundry reasons , chiefly drawn from a comparison of passages in the Latin poets with the original Greek , from which they were borrowed , for the preference of Collins's odes to those of Gray ; and of ...
In the same essay too , I assigned sundry reasons , chiefly drawn from a comparison of passages in the Latin poets with the original Greek , from which they were borrowed , for the preference of Collins's odes to those of Gray ; and of ...
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I mention this , because in referring various lines in Gray to their original in Shakspeare and Milton ; and in ! the clear perception how completely all the propriety was lost in the transfer ; I was , at that early period , led to a ...
I mention this , because in referring various lines in Gray to their original in Shakspeare and Milton ; and in ! the clear perception how completely all the propriety was lost in the transfer ; I was , at that early period , led to a ...
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... and the Hope , of Mr. Bowles ; for it is peculiar to original genius to become less and less striking , in proportion to its success in improving the taste and judgement of its contemporaries , The poems of West indeed had the merit ...
... and the Hope , of Mr. Bowles ; for it is peculiar to original genius to become less and less striking , in proportion to its success in improving the taste and judgement of its contemporaries , The poems of West indeed had the merit ...
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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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