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The first chapter of Isaiah ( indeed a very large proportion of the whole book ) is poetry in the most emphatic sense ; yet it would be not less irrational than strange to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate ...
The first chapter of Isaiah ( indeed a very large proportion of the whole book ) is poetry in the most emphatic sense ; yet it would be not less irrational than strange to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate ...
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“ Doubtless this could not be , but that she turns Bodies to spirit by sublimation strange , As fire converts to fire the things it burns , As we our food into our nature change . From their gross matter she abstracts their forms ...
“ Doubtless this could not be , but that she turns Bodies to spirit by sublimation strange , As fire converts to fire the things it burns , As we our food into our nature change . From their gross matter she abstracts their forms ...
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... and the most familiar things Gain a strange power of spreading awe around them " ) I would ask the poet whether he would not have felt an abrupt down - fall in these verses from the preceding stanza ? of an only fair instance that I ...
... and the most familiar things Gain a strange power of spreading awe around them " ) I would ask the poet whether he would not have felt an abrupt down - fall in these verses from the preceding stanza ? of an only fair instance that I ...
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Yet so groundless does this system appear on a close examination ; and so strange and * over - whelmܪ ing in its consequences , that I cannot , and. * I had in my mind the striking but untranslatable epithet , which the celebrated ...
Yet so groundless does this system appear on a close examination ; and so strange and * over - whelmܪ ing in its consequences , that I cannot , and. * I had in my mind the striking but untranslatable epithet , which the celebrated ...
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It was a strange and curious phenomenon , and such as in Germany had been previously unheard of , to read verses in which every thing was expressed , just as one would wish to talk , and yet all dignified , attractive , and interesting ...
It was a strange and curious phenomenon , and such as in Germany had been previously unheard of , to read verses in which every thing was expressed , just as one would wish to talk , and yet all dignified , attractive , and interesting ...
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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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