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... because more subtle , more complex , and dependent on more , and more fugitive causes . In the truly great poets , he would say , there is a reason assignable , not only for every word , but for the position of every word ...
... because more subtle , more complex , and dependent on more , and more fugitive causes . In the truly great poets , he would say , there is a reason assignable , not only for every word , but for the position of every word ...
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I was wont boldly to affirm , that it would be scarcely more difficult to push a stone out from the pyramids with the bare hand , than to alter a word , or the position of a word , in Milton or Shakspeare , in their most important works ...
I was wont boldly to affirm , that it would be scarcely more difficult to push a stone out from the pyramids with the bare hand , than to alter a word , or the position of a word , in Milton or Shakspeare , in their most important works ...
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In the course of my lectures , I had occasion to point out the almost faultless position and choice of words , in Mn . Pope's original compositions , particularly in his satires and moral essays , for the purpose of comparing them with ...
In the course of my lectures , I had occasion to point out the almost faultless position and choice of words , in Mn . Pope's original compositions , particularly in his satires and moral essays , for the purpose of comparing them with ...
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Now the change of one visual image for another involves in itself no absurdity , and becomes absurd only by its immediate juxta - position with the first thought , which is rendered possible by the whole attention being successively ...
Now the change of one visual image for another involves in itself no absurdity , and becomes absurd only by its immediate juxta - position with the first thought , which is rendered possible by the whole attention being successively ...
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In the first place it is to be observed , that Aristotle's positions on this subject are unmixed with fiction . The wise Stagyrite speaks of no successive particles propagating motion like billiard balls ( as Hobbs :) nor of nervous or ...
In the first place it is to be observed , that Aristotle's positions on this subject are unmixed with fiction . The wise Stagyrite speaks of no successive particles propagating motion like billiard balls ( as Hobbs :) nor of nervous or ...
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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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