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... meeting with sentiments of aversion to his opinions , and of alarm at their consequences , produced an eddy of criticism , which would of itself have borne up the poems by the violence , with which it whirled them round and round .
... meeting with sentiments of aversion to his opinions , and of alarm at their consequences , produced an eddy of criticism , which would of itself have borne up the poems by the violence , with which it whirled them round and round .
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The philosophic critics of all ages coincide with the ultimate judgement of all countries , in equally denying the praises of a just poem , on the one hand , to a series of striking lines or distichs , each of which absorbing the whole ...
The philosophic critics of all ages coincide with the ultimate judgement of all countries , in equally denying the praises of a just poem , on the one hand , to a series of striking lines or distichs , each of which absorbing the whole ...
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In the application of these principles to purposes of practical criticism as employed in the appraisal of works more or less imperfect , I have endeavoured to discover what the qualities in a poem are , which may be deemed promises and ...
In the application of these principles to purposes of practical criticism as employed in the appraisal of works more or less imperfect , I have endeavoured to discover what the qualities in a poem are , which may be deemed promises and ...
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Assuming these principles , as the data of our argument , we deduce from them two legitimate conditions , which the critic is entitled to expect in every metrical work . First , that as the elements of metre owe their existence to a ...
Assuming these principles , as the data of our argument , we deduce from them two legitimate conditions , which the critic is entitled to expect in every metrical work . First , that as the elements of metre owe their existence to a ...
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In Mr. Wordsworth's criticism of Gray's Sonnet , the reader's sympathy with his praise or blame of the different parts is taken for granted rather perhaps too easily . He has not , at least , attempted to win or compel it by ...
In Mr. Wordsworth's criticism of Gray's Sonnet , the reader's sympathy with his praise or blame of the different parts is taken for granted rather perhaps too easily . He has not , at least , attempted to win or compel it by ...
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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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