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Page 42
... selves in all their existing meanness , or to work on their sluggish sympathies by a pathos not a whit more respectable than the maudlin tears of drunkenness . Their tragic scenes were meant to affect us indeed ; but yet within the ...
... selves in all their existing meanness , or to work on their sluggish sympathies by a pathos not a whit more respectable than the maudlin tears of drunkenness . Their tragic scenes were meant to affect us indeed ; but yet within the ...
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66 On the other hand , in the poems which are pitched at a lower note , as the “ Harry Gill , Idiot Boy , " & c . the feelings are those of human nature in general ; though the poet has judiciously laid the scene in the country ...
66 On the other hand , in the poems which are pitched at a lower note , as the “ Harry Gill , Idiot Boy , " & c . the feelings are those of human nature in general ; though the poet has judiciously laid the scene in the country ...
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The scene of Goody Two - shoes in the church is perfectly susceptible of metrical narration ; and among the Ocúpata Sæupasótæta even of the present age , I do not recollect a more astonishing image than that of the “ whole rookery ...
The scene of Goody Two - shoes in the church is perfectly susceptible of metrical narration ; and among the Ocúpata Sæupasótæta even of the present age , I do not recollect a more astonishing image than that of the “ whole rookery ...
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... a gentle shock of mild surprize Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene * * Mr. Wordsworth's having judiciously adopted “ concourse wild ” in this passage for “ a wild scene " as it stood ...
... a gentle shock of mild surprize Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene * * Mr. Wordsworth's having judiciously adopted “ concourse wild ” in this passage for “ a wild scene " as it stood ...
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It respects the propriety of the word , scene , " even in the sentence in which it is retained . DRYDEN , and he only in his more careless verses , was the first as far as my researches have discovered , who for the convenience of rhyme ...
It respects the propriety of the word , scene , " even in the sentence in which it is retained . DRYDEN , and he only in his more careless verses , was the first as far as my researches have discovered , who for the convenience of rhyme ...
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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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