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Since spite of him , I'll live in this poor rhyme , While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes . And thou in this shalt find thy monument , When tyrant's crests , and tombs of brass are spent . Sonnet 107 .
Since spite of him , I'll live in this poor rhyme , While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes . And thou in this shalt find thy monument , When tyrant's crests , and tombs of brass are spent . Sonnet 107 .
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... or small independent income , to some village or country town of which he was not a native , or in which he had not been accustomed to live . Such men having nothing to do become credulous and talkative from indolence .
... or small independent income , to some village or country town of which he was not a native , or in which he had not been accustomed to live . Such men having nothing to do become credulous and talkative from indolence .
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... silent faces did he read Unutterable love ! Sound needed none , Nor any voice of joy : his spirit drank The spectacle ! sensation , soul , and form , All melted into lim . They swallowed up His animal being : in them did he live ...
... silent faces did he read Unutterable love ! Sound needed none , Nor any voice of joy : his spirit drank The spectacle ! sensation , soul , and form , All melted into lim . They swallowed up His animal being : in them did he live ...
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... Cold , pain , and labour , and all fleshly ills ; And mighty poets in their misery dead . But now , perplex'd by what the old man had said , My question eagerly did I renew , How is it that you live , and what is it you do ?
... Cold , pain , and labour , and all fleshly ills ; And mighty poets in their misery dead . But now , perplex'd by what the old man had said , My question eagerly did I renew , How is it that you live , and what is it you do ?
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... been led By circumstance to take unto the height The measure of themselves , these favor'd beings , All but a scatter'd few , live out their time Husbanding that which they possess within , And go to the grave unthought of .
... been led By circumstance to take unto the height The measure of themselves , these favor'd beings , All but a scatter'd few , live out their time Husbanding that which they possess within , And go to the grave unthought of .
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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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