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The measure is either constructed on no previous system , and acknowledges no justifying principle but that of the writer's convenience ; or else some mechanical movement is adopted , of which one couplet or stanza is so far an adequate ...
The measure is either constructed on no previous system , and acknowledges no justifying principle but that of the writer's convenience ; or else some mechanical movement is adopted , of which one couplet or stanza is so far an adequate ...
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... and conducing to the melody of all the foregoing and following words of the same period or stanza ; and lastly with equal labour , the greater because unbetrayed , by the variation and various harmonies of their metrical movement .
... and conducing to the melody of all the foregoing and following words of the same period or stanza ; and lastly with equal labour , the greater because unbetrayed , by the variation and various harmonies of their metrical movement .
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... and that the passages exclusively appropriate to the supposed narrator , such as the last couplet of the third stanza ; the seven last lines of the tenth ; £ and the five following stanzas , with the exception of the four admirable ...
... and that the passages exclusively appropriate to the supposed narrator , such as the last couplet of the third stanza ; the seven last lines of the tenth ; £ and the five following stanzas , with the exception of the four admirable ...
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Now I will take the first stanza , on which I have chanced to open , in the Lyrical Ballads . It is one the most simple and the least peculiar in its language . “ In distant countries I have been , And yet I have not often seen A ...
Now I will take the first stanza , on which I have chanced to open , in the Lyrical Ballads . It is one the most simple and the least peculiar in its language . “ In distant countries I have been , And yet I have not often seen A ...
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But when I turn to the following stanza in “ The Thorn : " » “ At all times of the day and night This wretched woman thither goes , And she is known to every ' star And every wind that blows : And there beside the thorn she sits ...
But when I turn to the following stanza in “ The Thorn : " » “ At all times of the day and night This wretched woman thither goes , And she is known to every ' star And every wind that blows : And there beside the thorn she sits ...
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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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