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... present work - Reception of the Author's first publication — The discipline of his taste at school — The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. Pope .
... present work - Reception of the Author's first publication — The discipline of his taste at school — The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. Pope .
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... and the application of the rules , deduced from philosophical principles , to poetry and criticism . ... as far as possible , a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction : and at the ...
... and the application of the rules , deduced from philosophical principles , to poetry and criticism . ... as far as possible , a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction : and at the ...
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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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... and the desire of giving a poetic colouring to abstract and metaphysical truths , in which a new world then seemed to open upon me , did yet , in part likewise , originate in unfeigned diffidence of my own comparative talent .
... and the desire of giving a poetic colouring to abstract and metaphysical truths , in which a new world then seemed to open upon me , did yet , in part likewise , originate in unfeigned diffidence of my own comparative talent .
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At the same time that we were studying the Greek Tragic Poets , he made us read Shakspeare and Milton as lessons : and ... I learnt from him , that Poetry , eyen that of the loftiest , and , seemingly , that of the wildest odes , had a ...
At the same time that we were studying the Greek Tragic Poets , he made us read Shakspeare and Milton as lessons : and ... I learnt from him , that Poetry , eyen that of the loftiest , and , seemingly , that of the wildest odes , had a ...
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