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and others of the same class and purpose . And as a particular pleasure is found in antiܪ ܪ cipating the recurrence of sounds and quantities , all 6.
and others of the same class and purpose . And as a particular pleasure is found in antiܪ ܪ cipating the recurrence of sounds and quantities , all 6.
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Pleasure , and that of the highest and most permanent kind , may result from the attainment of the end ; but it is not itself the immediate end . In other works the communication of pleasure may be the immediate purpose ; and though ...
Pleasure , and that of the highest and most permanent kind , may result from the attainment of the end ; but it is not itself the immediate end . In other works the communication of pleasure may be the immediate purpose ; and though ...
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А poem is that species of composition , which is opposed to works of science , by proposing for its immediate object pleasure , not truth ; and from all other species ( having this object in common with it ) it is discriminated by ...
А poem is that species of composition , which is opposed to works of science , by proposing for its immediate object pleasure , not truth ; and from all other species ( having this object in common with it ) it is discriminated by ...
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The first chapter of Isaiah ( indeed a very large proportion of the whole book ) is poetry in the most emphatic sense ; yet it would be not less irrational than strange to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate ...
The first chapter of Isaiah ( indeed a very large proportion of the whole book ) is poetry in the most emphatic sense ; yet it would be not less irrational than strange to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate ...
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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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