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But Mr. Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems so much greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter .
But Mr. Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems so much greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter .
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... on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in principle , and as contradictory ( in appearance at least ) both to other parts of the same preface , and to the author's own practice in the greater number of the poems themselves .
... on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in principle , and as contradictory ( in appearance at least ) both to other parts of the same preface , and to the author's own practice in the greater number of the poems themselves .
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... and conducing to the melody of all the foregoing and following words of the same period or stanza ; and lastly with equal labour , the greater because unbetrayed , by the variation and various harmonies of their metrical movement .
... and conducing to the melody of all the foregoing and following words of the same period or stanza ; and lastly with equal labour , the greater because unbetrayed , by the variation and various harmonies of their metrical movement .
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... with the number of independent states , and the diversity of written dialects , the Italians have gained a poetic idiom , as the Greeks before them had obtained from the same causes , with greater and more various discriminations.
... with the number of independent states , and the diversity of written dialects , the Italians have gained a poetic idiom , as the Greeks before them had obtained from the same causes , with greater and more various discriminations.
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ܪ > condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity , and consequently may be more accurately contemplated , and more forcibly communicated ; because the manners of rural life germinate from those ...
ܪ > condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity , and consequently may be more accurately contemplated , and more forcibly communicated ; because the manners of rural life germinate from those ...
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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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