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For the second class , subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ; the characters and incidents were to be such , as will be found in every village and its vicinity , where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them ...
For the second class , subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ; the characters and incidents were to be such , as will be found in every village and its vicinity , where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them ...
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The reader should be carried forward , not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity , or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution i but by the pleasureable activity of mind excited by the attractions of ...
The reader should be carried forward , not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity , or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution i but by the pleasureable activity of mind excited by the attractions of ...
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For it is a distinction resulting from the poetic genius itself , which sustains and modifies the images , thoughts , and emotions of the poet's own mind . The poet , described in ideal perfection , brings the whole soul of man into ...
For it is a distinction resulting from the poetic genius itself , which sustains and modifies the images , thoughts , and emotions of the poet's own mind . The poet , described in ideal perfection , brings the whole soul of man into ...
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... the characters themselves , not only of every outward look and act , but of the flux and reflux of the mind in all its subtlest thoughts and feelings , were placing the a whole before our view ; himself meanwhile unparticipating in 15.
... the characters themselves , not only of every outward look and act , but of the flux and reflux of the mind in all its subtlest thoughts and feelings , were placing the a whole before our view ; himself meanwhile unparticipating in 15.
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feelings , from those of which he is at once the painter and the analyst ; that though the very subject cannot but detract from the pleasure of a delicate mind , yet never was poem less dangerous on a moral account .
feelings , from those of which he is at once the painter and the analyst ; that though the very subject cannot but detract from the pleasure of a delicate mind , yet never was poem less dangerous on a moral account .
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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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