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For from the conjunction of perceived power with supposed heresy I explain the inveteracy and in some instances , I grieve to say , the acrimonious passions , with which the controversy has been conducted by the assailants .
For from the conjunction of perceived power with supposed heresy I explain the inveteracy and in some instances , I grieve to say , the acrimonious passions , with which the controversy has been conducted by the assailants .
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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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In the two following lines for instance , there is nothing objectionable , nothing which would preclude them from forming , in their proper place , part of a descriptive poem : ** Behold yon row of pines , that shorn and bow'd Bend from ...
In the two following lines for instance , there is nothing objectionable , nothing which would preclude them from forming , in their proper place , part of a descriptive poem : ** Behold yon row of pines , that shorn and bow'd Bend from ...
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For unrivalled instances of this excellence , the reader's own memory will refer him to the LEAR , OTHELLO , in short ... How true it is to nature , he has himself finely expressed in the instance of love in Sonnet 98 .
For unrivalled instances of this excellence , the reader's own memory will refer him to the LEAR , OTHELLO , in short ... How true it is to nature , he has himself finely expressed in the instance of love in Sonnet 98 .
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Take “ MICHAEL ” fur instance : An old man stout of heart , and strong of limb ; His bodily frame had been from youth to age Of an unusual strength : his mind was keen , Intense and frugal , apt for all affairs , And in his shepherd's ...
Take “ MICHAEL ” fur instance : An old man stout of heart , and strong of limb ; His bodily frame had been from youth to age Of an unusual strength : his mind was keen , Intense and frugal , apt for all affairs , And in his shepherd's ...
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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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