Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter . Mr. Wordsworth added two or three poems written in his own character , in the impassioned , lofty , and sustained diction , which ...
... compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter . Mr. Wordsworth added two or three poems written in his own character , in the impassioned , lofty , and sustained diction , which ...
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... compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of thought ; had they indeed contained nothing more than what is found in the paro- dies and pretended imitations of them ; they must have sunk at once , a dead ...
... compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of thought ; had they indeed contained nothing more than what is found in the paro- dies and pretended imitations of them ; they must have sunk at once , a dead ...
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... composition ; the difference therefore must consist in a dif- ferent combination of them , in consequence of a different object proposed . According to the difference of the object will be the difference of the combination . It is ...
... composition ; the difference therefore must consist in a dif- ferent combination of them , in consequence of a different object proposed . According to the difference of the object will be the difference of the combination . It is ...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. cipating the recurrence of sounds and quanti ties , all compositions that have this charm superadded , whatever be their contents , may be entitled poems . So much for the superficial form . A dif- ference of ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. cipating the recurrence of sounds and quanti ties , all compositions that have this charm superadded , whatever be their contents , may be entitled poems . So much for the superficial form . A dif- ference of ...
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... composition , which is opposed to works of science , by proposing for its immediate object pleasure , not truth ; and from all other species ( having this object in common with it ) it is discriminated by pro- posing to itself such ...
... composition , which is opposed to works of science , by proposing for its immediate object pleasure , not truth ; and from all other species ( having this object in common with it ) it is discriminated by pro- posing to itself such ...
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