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A difference of object and contents supplies an additional ground of distinction . The immediate purpose may be the communication of truths ; either of truth absolute and demonstrable , as in works of science ; or of facts experienced ...
A difference of object and contents supplies an additional ground of distinction . The immediate purpose may be the communication of truths ; either of truth absolute and demonstrable , as in works of science ; or of facts experienced ...
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Their foregrounds and intermediate distances are comparatively unattractive : while the main interest of the landscape is thrown into the back ground , where mountains and torrents and castles forbid the eye to proceed , and nothing ...
Their foregrounds and intermediate distances are comparatively unattractive : while the main interest of the landscape is thrown into the back ground , where mountains and torrents and castles forbid the eye to proceed , and nothing ...
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My own differences from certain supposed parts of Mr. Wordsworth's theory ground themselves on the assumption , that his words had been rightly interpreted , as purporting that the proper diction for poetry in general consists ...
My own differences from certain supposed parts of Mr. Wordsworth's theory ground themselves on the assumption , that his words had been rightly interpreted , as purporting that the proper diction for poetry in general consists ...
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If then I am compelled to doubt the theory , by which the choice of characters was to be directed , not only a priori , from grounds of reason , but both from the few instances in which the poet himself need be supposed to " Tis now ...
If then I am compelled to doubt the theory , by which the choice of characters was to be directed , not only a priori , from grounds of reason , but both from the few instances in which the poet himself need be supposed to " Tis now ...
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But such a one , on English ground , And in the broad highway I met ; Along the broad highway he came , His cheeks with tears were wet . Sturdy he seem'd , though he was sad , And in his arms a lamb he had .
But such a one , on English ground , And in the broad highway I met ; Along the broad highway he came , His cheeks with tears were wet . Sturdy he seem'd , though he was sad , And in his arms a lamb he had .
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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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