Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1 tual energy of the author , which was more or less consciously felt , where it was outwardly and even boisterously denied , meeting with sentiments of aversion to his opinions , and of alarm at their ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1 tual energy of the author , which was more or less consciously felt , where it was outwardly and even boisterously denied , meeting with sentiments of aversion to his opinions , and of alarm at their ...
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... less ir- rational than strange to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate object of the prophet . In short , whatever specific import we attach to the word , poetry , there will be found involved in it , as a ...
... less ir- rational than strange to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate object of the prophet . In short , whatever specific import we attach to the word , poetry , there will be found involved in it , as a ...
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... less imperfect , I have endeavoured to discover what the quali- ties in a poem are , which may be deemed pro- mises and specific symptoms of poetic power , as distinguished from general talent determined to poetic composition by ...
... less imperfect , I have endeavoured to discover what the quali- ties in a poem are , which may be deemed pro- mises and specific symptoms of poetic power , as distinguished from general talent determined to poetic composition by ...
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... less dan- gerous on a moral account . Instead of doing as Ariosto , and as , still more offensively , Wieland has done , instead of degrading and deforming passion into appetite , the trials of love into the struggles of concupiscence ...
... less dan- gerous on a moral account . Instead of doing as Ariosto , and as , still more offensively , Wieland has done , instead of degrading and deforming passion into appetite , the trials of love into the struggles of concupiscence ...
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... less valuable , not less indispensable mark Γονίμε μέν Ποιητε όςις ρήμα γενναιον λακοι , will the imagery supply , when , with more than the power of the painter , the poet gives us the liveliest image of succession with the feeling of ...
... less valuable , not less indispensable mark Γονίμε μέν Ποιητε όςις ρήμα γενναιον λακοι , will the imagery supply , when , with more than the power of the painter , the poet gives us the liveliest image of succession with the feeling of ...
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