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... and a particular age , not the product of particular places or employments , the poet owes the shew of probability , that his personages might really feel , think , and talk with any tolerable resemblance to his representation .
... and a particular age , not the product of particular places or employments , the poet owes the shew of probability , that his personages might really feel , think , and talk with any tolerable resemblance to his representation .
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举 Last Christmas when we talked of this , Old farmer Simpson did maintain , That in her womb the infant wrought About its mother's heart , and brought Her senses back again : And when at last her time drew near , Her looks were calm ...
举 Last Christmas when we talked of this , Old farmer Simpson did maintain , That in her womb the infant wrought About its mother's heart , and brought Her senses back again : And when at last her time drew near , Her looks were calm ...
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... which every well educated gentleman would wish to write , and ( with due allowances for the undeliberateness , and less connected train , of thinking natural and proper to conversation ) ܪ such as he would wish to talk .
... which every well educated gentleman would wish to write , and ( with due allowances for the undeliberateness , and less connected train , of thinking natural and proper to conversation ) ܪ such as he would wish to talk .
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such as he would wish to talk . Neither one or the other differ half as much from the general language of cultivated society , as the language of Mr. Wordsworth's homeliest composition differs from that of a common peasant .
such as he would wish to talk . Neither one or the other differ half as much from the general language of cultivated society , as the language of Mr. Wordsworth's homeliest composition differs from that of a common peasant .
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... and ought to differ , from the language of conversation ; even as * reading ought to differ from talking . ... an error in teachers , than a forment to the poor children , to inforce the necessity of - reading as they would talk .
... and ought to differ , from the language of conversation ; even as * reading ought to differ from talking . ... an error in teachers , than a forment to the poor children , to inforce the necessity of - reading as they would talk .
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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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