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And real in this sense they have been to every human being who , from whatever source of delusion , has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency . For the second class , subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ...
And real in this sense they have been to every human being who , from whatever source of delusion , has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency . For the second class , subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ...
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In this investigation , I could not , I thought , do better , than keep before me the earliest work of the greatest genius , that perhaps human nature has yet produced , our myriad - minded * Shakspear . I mean the “ Venus and Adonis ...
In this investigation , I could not , I thought , do better , than keep before me the earliest work of the greatest genius , that perhaps human nature has yet produced , our myriad - minded * Shakspear . I mean the “ Venus and Adonis ...
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... the effect of reducing multitude to unity , ' or succession to an instant ; or lastly , when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's own spirit , “ Which shoots its being through earth , sea , and air .
... the effect of reducing multitude to unity , ' or succession to an instant ; or lastly , when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's own spirit , “ Which shoots its being through earth , sea , and air .
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge , human thoughts , human passions , emotions , language . In Shakspeare's poems , the creative power , and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace .
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge , human thoughts , human passions , emotions , language . In Shakspeare's poems , the creative power , and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace .
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While the former darts himself forth , and passes into all the forms of human character and passion , the one Proteus of the fire and the flood ; the other attracts all forms and things to himself , -into the unity of his own IDEAL .
While the former darts himself forth , and passes into all the forms of human character and passion , the one Proteus of the fire and the flood ; the other attracts all forms and things to himself , -into the unity of his own IDEAL .
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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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