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Be this as it may , there was one custom of our master's , which I cannot pass over in silence , because I think it imitable and worthy of imitation . He would often permit our theme exercises , under some pretext of want of time ...
Be this as it may , there was one custom of our master's , which I cannot pass over in silence , because I think it imitable and worthy of imitation . He would often permit our theme exercises , under some pretext of want of time ...
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... into night ! mine eyes perused With tearful vacancy the dampy grass That wept and glitter'd in the paly ray : And I did pause me , on my lonely way And mused me , on the wretched ones that pass O'er the bleak heath of sorrow .
... into night ! mine eyes perused With tearful vacancy the dampy grass That wept and glitter'd in the paly ray : And I did pause me , on my lonely way And mused me , on the wretched ones that pass O'er the bleak heath of sorrow .
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Or should we pass by all higher objects and motives , all disinterested benevolence , and even that ambition of lasting praise which is at once the crutch and ornament , which at once sup , ports and betrays , the infirmity of human ...
Or should we pass by all higher objects and motives , all disinterested benevolence , and even that ambition of lasting praise which is at once the crutch and ornament , which at once sup , ports and betrays , the infirmity of human ...
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... I dare not compliment their pass - time , or rather kill - time , with the name of reading Call it rather a sort of beggarly daydreaming , during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness and a little ...
... I dare not compliment their pass - time , or rather kill - time , with the name of reading Call it rather a sort of beggarly daydreaming , during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness and a little ...
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... I might furnish no possible pretext for the unthinking to misconstrue , or the malignant to misapply my words , and having stampt their own meaning on them , to pass them as current coin in the marts of garrulity or detraction .
... I might furnish no possible pretext for the unthinking to misconstrue , or the malignant to misapply my words , and having stampt their own meaning on them , to pass them as current coin in the marts of garrulity or detraction .
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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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