Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems so much greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter . Mr. Wordsworth ...
... Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems so much greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter . Mr. Wordsworth ...
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... Wordsworth's poems been the silly , the childish things , which they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of thought ...
... Wordsworth's poems been the silly , the childish things , which they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of thought ...
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... , Which SHAKSPEARE spake ; the faith and morals hold , Which MILTON held . In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood , have titles manifold ! WORDSWORth . CHAPTER XVI . Striking points of difference between the Poets 22.
... , Which SHAKSPEARE spake ; the faith and morals hold , Which MILTON held . In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood , have titles manifold ! WORDSWORth . CHAPTER XVI . Striking points of difference between the Poets 22.
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... Wordsworth in his pre- face contended , and most ably contended , for a reformation in our poetic diction , as far as he has evinced the truth of passion , and the dramatic propriety of those figures and meta- phors in the original ...
... Wordsworth in his pre- face contended , and most ably contended , for a reformation in our poetic diction , as far as he has evinced the truth of passion , and the dramatic propriety of those figures and meta- phors in the original ...
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... Wordsworth is fully justi- fied in believing his efforts to have been by no means ineffectual . Not only in the verses of those who have professed their admiration of his genius , but even of those who have distin- guished themselves by ...
... Wordsworth is fully justi- fied in believing his efforts to have been by no means ineffectual . Not only in the verses of those who have professed their admiration of his genius , but even of those who have distin- guished themselves by ...
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