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But my attention was especially fixed on those of Italy , from the birth to the death of Shakspeare ; that being the country in which the fine arts had been most sedulously , and hitherto most successfully cultivated .
But my attention was especially fixed on those of Italy , from the birth to the death of Shakspeare ; that being the country in which the fine arts had been most sedulously , and hitherto most successfully cultivated .
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But in the works of the great Italian and Flemish masters , the front and middle objects of the landscape are the most obvious and determinate , the interest gradually dies away in the back ground , and the charm and peculiar worth of ...
But in the works of the great Italian and Flemish masters , the front and middle objects of the landscape are the most obvious and determinate , the interest gradually dies away in the back ground , and the charm and peculiar worth of ...
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Not otherwise is it with the more polished poets of the 15th and 16th century , especially with those of Italy . The imagery is almost . always general : sun , moon , flowers , breezes , murmuring streams , warbling songsters ...
Not otherwise is it with the more polished poets of the 15th and 16th century , especially with those of Italy . The imagery is almost . always general : sun , moon , flowers , breezes , murmuring streams , warbling songsters ...
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... our elder bards both of Italy and England produced a far greater , as well as more charming variety by countless modifications , and subtle > balances of sound in the common metres of their country 28.
... our elder bards both of Italy and England produced a far greater , as well as more charming variety by countless modifications , and subtle > balances of sound in the common metres of their country 28.
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As I do not remember to have seen either the poems or their author mentioned in any English work , or have found them in any of the common collections of Italian poetry ; and as the little work is of rare occurrence ; I will transcribe ...
As I do not remember to have seen either the poems or their author mentioned in any English work , or have found them in any of the common collections of Italian poetry ; and as the little work is of rare occurrence ; I will transcribe ...
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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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