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The answer is , that nothing can permanently please , which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so , and not otherwise . If metre be superadded , all other parts must be made consonant with it .
The answer is , that nothing can permanently please , which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so , and not otherwise . If metre be superadded , all other parts must be made consonant with it .
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And the language from “ Pope's translation of Homer , " to “ Darwin's Temple of Nature , ” may , notwithstanding some illustrious exceptions , be too faithfully characterized , as claiming to be poetical for no better reason , than that ...
And the language from “ Pope's translation of Homer , " to “ Darwin's Temple of Nature , ” may , notwithstanding some illustrious exceptions , be too faithfully characterized , as claiming to be poetical for no better reason , than that ...
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... and the dramatic propriety of those figures and metaphors in the original poets , which stript of their justifying reasons , and converted into mere artifices of connection or ornament , constitute the characteristic falsity in the ...
... and the dramatic propriety of those figures and metaphors in the original poets , which stript of their justifying reasons , and converted into mere artifices of connection or ornament , constitute the characteristic falsity in the ...
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If then I am compelled to doubt the theory , by which the choice of characters was to be directed , not only a priori , from grounds of reason , but both from the few instances in which the poet himself need be supposed to " Tis now ...
If then I am compelled to doubt the theory , by which the choice of characters was to be directed , not only a priori , from grounds of reason , but both from the few instances in which the poet himself need be supposed to " Tis now ...
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... by the incident at the time of its real occurrence , I would dare appeal to his own judgement , whether in the metre itself he found a sufficient reason for their being written metrically ? a “ And thus continuing , she said I had a ...
... by the incident at the time of its real occurrence , I would dare appeal to his own judgement , whether in the metre itself he found a sufficient reason for their being written metrically ? a “ And thus continuing , she said I had a ...
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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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