Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... prose composition ; the difference therefore must consist in a dif- ferent combination of them , in consequence of a different object proposed . According to the difference of the object will be the difference of the combination . It is ...
... prose composition ; the difference therefore must consist in a dif- ferent combination of them , in consequence of a different object proposed . According to the difference of the object will be the difference of the combination . It is ...
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... prose aims at , whether col- loquial or written . My own conclusions on the nature of poetry , in the strictest use of the word , have been in part anticipated in the preceding disquisition on the fancy and imagination . What is poetry ...
... prose aims at , whether col- loquial or written . My own conclusions on the nature of poetry , in the strictest use of the word , have been in part anticipated in the preceding disquisition on the fancy and imagination . What is poetry ...
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... prose . Though alas ! even our prose writings , nay even the stile of our more set discourses , strive to be in the fashion , and trick themselves out in the soiled and over - worn finery of the meretricious muse . It is true , that of ...
... prose . Though alas ! even our prose writings , nay even the stile of our more set discourses , strive to be in the fashion , and trick themselves out in the soiled and over - worn finery of the meretricious muse . It is true , that of ...
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... prose than with us . From the earlier appearance and established primacy of the Tuscan poets , concurring with the number of independent states , and the diversity of written dialects , the Italians have gained a poetic idiom , as the ...
... prose than with us . From the earlier appearance and established primacy of the Tuscan poets , concurring with the number of independent states , and the diversity of written dialects , the Italians have gained a poetic idiom , as the ...
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... prose and that of metrical composition , there neither is , nor can be any essential difference . " It is against these exclusively , that my opposition is directed . I object , in the very first instance , to an equivocation in the use ...
... prose and that of metrical composition , there neither is , nor can be any essential difference . " It is against these exclusively , that my opposition is directed . I object , in the very first instance , to an equivocation in the use ...
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