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... witty or profound reflections , which the poet's ever active mind has deduced from , or connected with , the imagery and the incidents . The reader is forced into too much action to sympathize with the merely passive of our nature .
... witty or profound reflections , which the poet's ever active mind has deduced from , or connected with , the imagery and the incidents . The reader is forced into too much action to sympathize with the merely passive of our nature .
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... and converted into mere artifices of connection or ornament , constitute the characteristic falsity in the poetic style of the moderns ; and as far as he has , with equal acuteness and clearness , pointed out the process in which ...
... and converted into mere artifices of connection or ornament , constitute the characteristic falsity in the poetic style of the moderns ; and as far as he has , with equal acuteness and clearness , pointed out the process in which ...
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... as far as they can be conceived to have been really transferred from the minds and conversation of such persons , are attributable to causes and circumstances not necessarily connected with “ their occupations and abode .
... as far as they can be conceived to have been really transferred from the minds and conversation of such persons , are attributable to causes and circumstances not necessarily connected with “ their occupations and abode .
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The language of Algernon Sidney differs not at all from that , which every well educated gentleman would wish to write , and ( with due allowances for the undeliberateness , and less connected train , of thinking natural and proper to ...
The language of Algernon Sidney differs not at all from that , which every well educated gentleman would wish to write , and ( with due allowances for the undeliberateness , and less connected train , of thinking natural and proper to ...
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I have to beg Dr. Bell's pardon for this connection of the two names , but he knows that contrast is no less powerful a cause of associatiou than likeness . “ The ancient spirit is not dead ; Old times 61.
I have to beg Dr. Bell's pardon for this connection of the two names , but he knows that contrast is no less powerful a cause of associatiou than likeness . “ The ancient spirit is not dead ; Old times 61.
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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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