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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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But with the small alteration of rhythm , the same words would be equally in their place in a book of topography , or in a descriptive tour . The same image will rise into a semblance of poetry if thus conveyed : “ Yon row of bleak and ...
But with the small alteration of rhythm , the same words would be equally in their place in a book of topography , or in a descriptive tour . The same image will rise into a semblance of poetry if thus conveyed : “ Yon row of bleak and ...
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But it is equally true , that this recurrence to plain sense , and genuine mother English , is far from being general ; and that the composition of our novels , magazines , public harangues , & c . is commonly as trivial in thought ...
But it is equally true , that this recurrence to plain sense , and genuine mother English , is far from being general ; and that the composition of our novels , magazines , public harangues , & c . is commonly as trivial in thought ...
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It is possible , that with these principles others may have been blended , which are not equally evident ; and some which are unsteady and subvertible from the narrowness or imperfection of their basis . But it is more than possible ...
It is possible , that with these principles others may have been blended , which are not equally evident ; and some which are unsteady and subvertible from the narrowness or imperfection of their basis . But it is more than possible ...
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... ( equally important though less obvious ) that the rustic , from the more imperfect developement of his faculties , and from the lower state of their cultivation , aims almost Dd solely to convey insulated facts , either those of his ...
... ( equally important though less obvious ) that the rustic , from the more imperfect developement of his faculties , and from the lower state of their cultivation , aims almost Dd solely to convey insulated facts , either those of his ...
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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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