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... and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural , by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom , and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us ; an inexhaustihle treasure , but for ...
... and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural , by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom , and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us ; an inexhaustihle treasure , but for ...
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They must be such , as to justify the perpetual and distinct attention to each part , which an , exact correspondent recurrence of accent and sound are calculated to excite . The final definition then , so deduced , may be thus worded .
They must be such , as to justify the perpetual and distinct attention to each part , which an , exact correspondent recurrence of accent and sound are calculated to excite . The final definition then , so deduced , may be thus worded .
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... each of which absorbing the whole attention of the reader to itself disjoins it from its context , and makes it a separate whole , instead of an harmonizing part ; and on the other hand , to an unsustained composition , from which ...
... each of which absorbing the whole attention of the reader to itself disjoins it from its context , and makes it a separate whole , instead of an harmonizing part ; and on the other hand , to an unsustained composition , from which ...
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And this again can be no other than the property of exciting a more continuous and equal attention , than the language of prose aims at , whether colloquial or written . My own conclusions on the nature of poetry , in the strictest use ...
And this again can be no other than the property of exciting a more continuous and equal attention , than the language of prose aims at , whether colloquial or written . My own conclusions on the nature of poetry , in the strictest use ...
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... whole representation of those characters by the most consummate actors . You seem to be told nothing , but to see and hear every thing . Hence it is , that from the perpetual activity of attention required on the part of the reader ...
... whole representation of those characters by the most consummate actors . You seem to be told nothing , but to see and hear every thing . Hence it is , that from the perpetual activity of attention required on the part of the reader ...
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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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