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... not truth ; and from all other species ( having this object in common with it ) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole , as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part .
... not truth ; and from all other species ( having this object in common with it ) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole , as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part .
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Abstracted from the degrees and peculiarities of individual genius , the properties common to the good writers of each period seem to establish one striking point of difference between the poetry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ...
Abstracted from the degrees and peculiarities of individual genius , the properties common to the good writers of each period seem to establish one striking point of difference between the poetry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ...
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Something analogous to the materials and structure of modern poetry I seem to have noticed ( but here I beg to be understood as speaking with the utinost diffidence ) in our common landscape painters . Their foregrounds and intermediate ...
Something analogous to the materials and structure of modern poetry I seem to have noticed ( but here I beg to be understood as speaking with the utinost diffidence ) in our common landscape painters . Their foregrounds and intermediate ...
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The imagery is almost . always general : sun , moon , flowers , breezes , murmuring streams , warbling songsters , delicious shades , lovely damsels , cruel as fair , nymphs , naiads , and goddesses , are the materials which are common ...
The imagery is almost . always general : sun , moon , flowers , breezes , murmuring streams , warbling songsters , delicious shades , lovely damsels , cruel as fair , nymphs , naiads , and goddesses , are the materials which are common ...
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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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| 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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