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... and others borrowed from the German , having in their very mechanism a specific overpowering tune , to which the generous reader humours his voice and emphasis , with more indulgence to the author than attention to the meaning or ...
... and others borrowed from the German , having in their very mechanism a specific overpowering tune , to which the generous reader humours his voice and emphasis , with more indulgence to the author than attention to the meaning or ...
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It is possible , that this predilection , at first merely comparative , deviated for a time into direct partiality . But the real object , crushing KANT . In the facility and force of compound epithets , the German from the number of ...
It is possible , that this predilection , at first merely comparative , deviated for a time into direct partiality . But the real object , crushing KANT . In the facility and force of compound epithets , the German from the number of ...
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which he had in view , was , I doubt not , a species of excellence which had been long be- ' fore most happily characterized by the judicious and amiable GARVE , whose works are so justly beloved and esteemed by the Germans , in his ...
which he had in view , was , I doubt not , a species of excellence which had been long be- ' fore most happily characterized by the judicious and amiable GARVE , whose works are so justly beloved and esteemed by the Germans , in his ...
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Jacobi indeed relates of LESSING , that after a conversation with him at the house of the poet , Gleim ( the Tyrtæus and Anacreon of the German Parnassus ) in which conversation L. had avowed privately to Jacobi his reluctance to admit ...
Jacobi indeed relates of LESSING , that after a conversation with him at the house of the poet , Gleim ( the Tyrtæus and Anacreon of the German Parnassus ) in which conversation L. had avowed privately to Jacobi his reluctance to admit ...
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were eighteen in number , videlicet , five Englishmen , an English lady , a French gentleman and his servant , an Hanoverian and his servant , a Prussian , a Swede , two Danes , and a Mulatto boy , a German tailor and his wife ( the ...
were eighteen in number , videlicet , five Englishmen , an English lady , a French gentleman and his servant , an Hanoverian and his servant , a Prussian , a Swede , two Danes , and a Mulatto boy , a German tailor and his wife ( the ...
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| Title | Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 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 | 309 pages |
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