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... of which one couplet or stanza is so far an adequate specimen , as that the occasional differences appear evidently to arise from accident , or the qualities of the language itself , not from meditation and an intelligent purpose .
... of which one couplet or stanza is so far an adequate specimen , as that the occasional differences appear evidently to arise from accident , or the qualities of the language itself , not from meditation and an intelligent purpose .
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After what I have advanced , it would appear presumption to offer a translation ; even if the attempt were not discouraged by the different genius of the English mind and language , which demands a denser body of thought as the ...
After what I have advanced , it would appear presumption to offer a translation ; even if the attempt were not discouraged by the different genius of the English mind and language , which demands a denser body of thought as the ...
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“ The language too of these men is adopted ( purified indeed from what appears to be its real defects , from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust ) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which ...
“ The language too of these men is adopted ( purified indeed from what appears to be its real defects , from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust ) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which ...
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ܪ Cowley ) a man should undertake to translate Pindar , word for word , it would be thought that one madman had translated another ; as may appear , when he , that understands not the original , reads the verbal traduction of him into ...
ܪ Cowley ) a man should undertake to translate Pindar , word for word , it would be thought that one madman had translated another ; as may appear , when he , that understands not the original , reads the verbal traduction of him into ...
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It might appear from some passages in the former part of Mr. Wordsworth's preface , that he meant to confine his theory of style , and the necessity of a close accordance with the actual language of men , to those particular subjects ...
It might appear from some passages in the former part of Mr. Wordsworth's preface , that he meant to confine his theory of style , and the necessity of a close accordance with the actual language of men , to those particular subjects ...
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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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