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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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a whole before our view ; himself meanwhile unparticipating in the passions , and actuated only by that pleasurable excitement , which had resulted from the energetic fervor of his own spirit in so vividly exhibiting , what it had so ...
a whole before our view ; himself meanwhile unparticipating in the passions , and actuated only by that pleasurable excitement , which had resulted from the energetic fervor of his own spirit in so vividly exhibiting , what it had so ...
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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 ; Shakspeare has here represented the ...
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 ; Shakspeare has here represented the ...
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a as far as they are modified by a predominant passion ; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion ; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity , ' or succession to an instant ; or lastly , when a ...
a as far as they are modified by a predominant passion ; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion ; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity , ' or succession to an instant ; or lastly , when a ...
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As of higher worth , so doubtless still more characteristic of poetic genius does the imagery become , when it moulds and colors itself to the circumstances , passion , or character , present and foremost in the mind .
As of higher worth , so doubtless still more characteristic of poetic genius does the imagery become , when it moulds and colors itself to the circumstances , passion , or character , present and foremost in the mind .
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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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