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... truly indeed - Must we be free or die , who speak the tongue , Which SHAKSPEARE spake ; the faith and morals hold , Which Milton held . In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood , have titles manifold ! ܪ WORDSWORTH .
... truly indeed - Must we be free or die , who speak the tongue , Which SHAKSPEARE spake ; the faith and morals hold , Which Milton held . In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood , have titles manifold ! ܪ WORDSWORTH .
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In the present age the poet ( I would wish to be understood as speaking generally , and without allusion to individual names ) seems to propose to himself as his main object , and as that which is the most characteristic of his art ...
In the present age the poet ( I would wish to be understood as speaking generally , and without allusion to individual names ) seems to propose to himself as his main object , and as that which is the most characteristic of his art ...
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Something analogous to the materials and structure of modern poetry I seem to have noticed ( but here I beg to be understood as speaking with the utinost diffidence ) in our common landscape painters . Their foregrounds and intermediate ...
Something analogous to the materials and structure of modern poetry I seem to have noticed ( but here I beg to be understood as speaking with the utinost diffidence ) in our common landscape painters . Their foregrounds and intermediate ...
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... in which they can attain their maturity , are less under restraint , and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that ܪ > condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in Сс 3 37.
... in which they can attain their maturity , are less under restraint , and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that ܪ > condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in Сс 3 37.
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... situation where the essential passions of the heart find a better soil , in which they can attain their maturity and speak a plainer and more emphatic language , ” as it is an impersonation of an instinct abandoned by judgement .
... situation where the essential passions of the heart find a better soil , in which they can attain their maturity and speak a plainer and more emphatic language , ” as it is an impersonation of an instinct abandoned by judgement .
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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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