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The first is the fault which a writer is the least able to detect in his own compositions : and my mind was not then sufficiently disciplined to receive the authority of others , as a substitute for my own conviction .
The first is the fault which a writer is the least able to detect in his own compositions : and my mind was not then sufficiently disciplined to receive the authority of others , as a substitute for my own conviction .
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I have taken the first that occurred ; but Shakspeare's readiness to praise his rivals , ore pleno , and the confidence of his own equality with * Mr. Pope was under the common error of his age , an error , far from being sufficiently ...
I have taken the first that occurred ; but Shakspeare's readiness to praise his rivals , ore pleno , and the confidence of his own equality with * Mr. Pope was under the common error of his age , an error , far from being sufficiently ...
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... the merit of the different poems , and ( in the lighter works ) a prediliction for the strange and whimsical ; in short , such faults as might have been anticipated in a young and rapid writer , were indeed sufficiently enforced .
... the merit of the different poems , and ( in the lighter works ) a prediliction for the strange and whimsical ; in short , such faults as might have been anticipated in a young and rapid writer , were indeed sufficiently enforced .
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At present it will be sufficient for my purpose , if I have proved , that Mr. Southey's writings no more than my own , furnished the original occasion to this fiction of a new school of poetry , and of clamors against its supposed ...
At present it will be sufficient for my purpose , if I have proved , that Mr. Southey's writings no more than my own , furnished the original occasion to this fiction of a new school of poetry , and of clamors against its supposed ...
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... both the style and subjects of Mr. Wordsworth's minor poems ; I admitted that there were some few of the tales and incidents , in which I could not myself find a sufficient cause for their having been recorded in metre .
... both the style and subjects of Mr. Wordsworth's minor poems ; I admitted that there were some few of the tales and incidents , in which I could not myself find a sufficient cause for their having been recorded in metre .
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