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But of the objects , which I proposed to myself , it was not the least important to effect , as far as possible , a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction : and at the same time to ...
But of the objects , which I proposed to myself , it was not the least important to effect , as far as possible , a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction : and at the same time to ...
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The few pages , which I have published , are of too distant a date ; and the extent of their sale a proof too conclusive against their having been popular at any time to render probable , I had almost said possible , the excitement of ...
The few pages , which I have published , are of too distant a date ; and the extent of their sale a proof too conclusive against their having been popular at any time to render probable , I had almost said possible , the excitement of ...
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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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There are men , who deserve a higher record ; men with whose characters it is the interest of - their contemporaries , no less than that of posterity , to be made acquainted ; while it is yet possible for impartial censure , and even ...
There are men , who deserve a higher record ; men with whose characters it is the interest of - their contemporaries , no less than that of posterity , to be made acquainted ; while it is yet possible for impartial censure , and even ...
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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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