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As the result of all my reading and meditation , I abstracted two critical aphorisms , deeming them to comprize the conditions and criteria of poetic style ; first , that not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return ...
As the result of all my reading and meditation , I abstracted two critical aphorisms , deeming them to comprize the conditions and criteria of poetic style ; first , that not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return ...
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What in and for themselves would have been either forgotten or forgiven as imperfections , or at least comparative failures , provoked direct hostility when announced as intentional , as the result of choice after full deliberation .
What in and for themselves would have been either forgotten or forgiven as imperfections , or at least comparative failures , provoked direct hostility when announced as intentional , as the result of choice after full deliberation .
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... namely , signifying the act of self - consciousness , sometimes the external image in and by which the mind represents that act to itself , the result and symbol of its individuality . Now suppose the direct contrary state , and you ...
... namely , signifying the act of self - consciousness , sometimes the external image in and by which the mind represents that act to itself , the result and symbol of its individuality . Now suppose the direct contrary state , and you ...
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I am indeed convinced in my own mind , that could the same experiment have been tried with these volumes , as was made in the well known story of the picture , the result would have been the same ; the parts which had been covered by ...
I am indeed convinced in my own mind , that could the same experiment have been tried with these volumes , as was made in the well known story of the picture , the result would have been the same ; the parts which had been covered by ...
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... amid the variety of his talents and attainments is not of less repute for the depth and accuracy of his philosophical enquiries , than for the eloquence with which he is said to render their most difficult results perspicuous , and ...
... amid the variety of his talents and attainments is not of less repute for the depth and accuracy of his philosophical enquiries , than for the eloquence with which he is said to render their most difficult results perspicuous , and ...
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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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