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From this preface , prefixed to poems in which it was impossible to deny the presence of original genius , however mistaken its direction might be deemed , arose the whole long continued controversy . For from the conjunction of ...
From this preface , prefixed to poems in which it was impossible to deny the presence of original genius , however mistaken its direction might be deemed , arose the whole long continued controversy . For from the conjunction of ...
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While there remain important points in which he can still feel himself in the right , in which he still finds firm footing for continued resistance , he will gradually adopt those opinions , which were the least remote from his own ...
While there remain important points in which he can still feel himself in the right , in which he still finds firm footing for continued resistance , he will gradually adopt those opinions , which were the least remote from his own ...
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This effect it produces by the continued excitement of surprize , and by the quick reciprocations of curiosity still gratified and still re - excited , which are too slight indeed to be at any one moment objects of distinct ...
This effect it produces by the continued excitement of surprize , and by the quick reciprocations of curiosity still gratified and still re - excited , which are too slight indeed to be at any one moment objects of distinct ...
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And that they have continued in prose , cannot be fairly explained by the assumption , that the comparative meanness of their thoughts and images precluded even the humblest forms of metre . The scene of Goody Two - shoes in the church ...
And that they have continued in prose , cannot be fairly explained by the assumption , that the comparative meanness of their thoughts and images precluded even the humblest forms of metre . The scene of Goody Two - shoes in the church ...
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... and to strike out ( in thought I mean ) every instance of this kind . If the numher of these fancied erasures did not startle him ; or if he continued to deem the work 1 improved by their total omission ; he must advance reasons 77.
... and to strike out ( in thought I mean ) every instance of this kind . If the numher of these fancied erasures did not startle him ; or if he continued to deem the work 1 improved by their total omission ; he must advance reasons 77.
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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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