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In this investigation , I could not , I thought , do better , than keep before me the earliest work of the greatest genius , that perhaps human nature has yet produced , our myriad - minded * Shakspear . I mean the “ Venus and Adonis ...
In this investigation , I could not , I thought , do better , than keep before me the earliest work of the greatest genius , that perhaps human nature has yet produced , our myriad - minded * Shakspear . I mean the “ Venus and Adonis ...
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And the language from “ Pope's translation of Homer , " to “ Darwin's Temple of Nature , ” may , notwithstanding some illustrious exceptions , be too faithfully characterized , as claiming to be poetical for no better reason , than that ...
And the language from “ Pope's translation of Homer , " to “ Darwin's Temple of Nature , ” may , notwithstanding some illustrious exceptions , be too faithfully characterized , as claiming to be poetical for no better reason , than that ...
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... a better soil , in which they can attain their maturity , are less under restraint , and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that ܪ > condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in Сс 3 37.
... a better soil , in which they can attain their maturity , are less under restraint , and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that ܪ > condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in Сс 3 37.
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On the contrary the mountaineers , whose manners have been so often eulogized , are in , general better educated and greater readers than men of equal rank elsewhere . But where this is not the case 40.
On the contrary the mountaineers , whose manners have been so often eulogized , are in , general better educated and greater readers than men of equal rank elsewhere . But where this is not the case 40.
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In the “ Idiot Boy , ” indeed , the mother's character is not so much a real and native product of a “ situation where the essential passions of the heart find a better soil , in which they can attain their maturity and speak a plainer ...
In the “ Idiot Boy , ” indeed , the mother's character is not so much a real and native product of a “ situation where the essential passions of the heart find a better soil , in which they can attain their maturity and speak a plainer ...
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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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