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For the second class , subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ; the characters and incidents were to be such , as will be found in every village and its vicinity , where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them ...
For the second class , subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ; the characters and incidents were to be such , as will be found in every village and its vicinity , where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them ...
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... with more than usual order ; judgement ever awake and steady self - possession , with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement ; and while it blends and harmonizes the natural and the artificial , still subordinates art to nature ...
... with more than usual order ; judgement ever awake and steady self - possession , with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement ; and while it blends and harmonizes the natural and the artificial , still subordinates art to nature ...
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... as travels , voyages , and works of natural history ) affecting incidents ; just thoughts ; interesting personal or domestic feelings ; and with these the art of their combination or intertexture in the form of a poem ; may all by ...
... as travels , voyages , and works of natural history ) affecting incidents ; just thoughts ; interesting personal or domestic feelings ; and with these the art of their combination or intertexture in the form of a poem ; may all by ...
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... and this together with the power of reducing multitude into unity of effect , and modifying a series of thoughts by some one predominant thought or feeling , may be cultivated and improved , but can never be learnt .
... and this together with the power of reducing multitude into unity of effect , and modifying a series of thoughts by some one predominant thought or feeling , may be cultivated and improved , but can never be learnt .
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... and the playful nature of the thoughts and images ; and above all from ; the alienation , and , if I may hazard such an expression , the utter aloofness of the poet's own a feelings , from those of which he is at once 16.
... and the playful nature of the thoughts and images ; and above all from ; the alienation , and , if I may hazard such an expression , the utter aloofness of the poet's own a feelings , from those of which he is at once 16.
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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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