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DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours , our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry , the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature ...
DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours , our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry , the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature ...
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Controversy is not seldom excited in consequence of the disputants attaching each a different meaning to the same word ; and in few instances has this been more striking , than in disputes concerning the present subject .
Controversy is not seldom excited in consequence of the disputants attaching each a different meaning to the same word ; and in few instances has this been more striking , than in disputes concerning the present subject .
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The reader should be carried forward , not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity , or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution i but by the pleasureable activity of mind excited by the attractions of ...
The reader should be carried forward , not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity , or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution i but by the pleasureable activity of mind excited by the attractions of ...
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And this again can be no other than the property of exciting a more continuous and equal attention , than the language of prose aims at , whether colloquial or written . My own conclusions on the nature of poetry , in the strictest use ...
And this again can be no other than the property of exciting a more continuous and equal attention , than the language of prose aims at , whether colloquial or written . My own conclusions on the nature of poetry , in the strictest use ...
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a whole before our view ; himself meanwhile unparticipating in the passions , and actuated only by that pleasurable excitement , which had resulted from the energetic fervor of his own spirit in so vividly exhibiting , what it had so ...
a whole before our view ; himself meanwhile unparticipating in the passions , and actuated only by that pleasurable excitement , which had resulted from the energetic fervor of his own spirit in so vividly exhibiting , what it had so ...
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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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