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To a cultivated taste there is a delight in perfection for its own sake , independent of the material in which it is manifested , that none but a cultivated taste can understand or appreciate . After what I have advanced , it would ...
To a cultivated taste there is a delight in perfection for its own sake , independent of the material in which it is manifested , that none but a cultivated taste can understand or appreciate . After what I have advanced , it would ...
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... and from his own experience too , that good taste must be ucquired , and like all other good things , is the result of thought , and the submissive study of the best models . If it be asked , “ But what shall I deem such ?
... and from his own experience too , that good taste must be ucquired , and like all other good things , is the result of thought , and the submissive study of the best models . If it be asked , “ But what shall I deem such ?
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Nay , even at this day what scholar of genial taste will not so far sympatize with them , as to read with pleasure in PETRACH , CHAUCER , or SPENSER , what he would perhaps condemn as puerile in a modern poet ?
Nay , even at this day what scholar of genial taste will not so far sympatize with them , as to read with pleasure in PETRACH , CHAUCER , or SPENSER , what he would perhaps condemn as puerile in a modern poet ?
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... as if it have been governed and applied by good sense , and rendered instinctive by habit , becomes the representative and reward of our past conscious reasonings , insights , and conclusions , and acquires the name of TASTE .
... as if it have been governed and applied by good sense , and rendered instinctive by habit , becomes the representative and reward of our past conscious reasonings , insights , and conclusions , and acquires the name of TASTE .
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Surely , no unusual taste is requisite to see clearly , that this compulsory juxta - position is not produced by the presentation of impressive or delightful forms to the inward vision , nor by any sympathy with the modifying powers ...
Surely , no unusual taste is requisite to see clearly , that this compulsory juxta - position is not produced by the presentation of impressive or delightful forms to the inward vision , nor by any sympathy with the modifying powers ...
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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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