Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... ? Inopem me copia fecit . How true it is to nature , he has himself finely expressed in the instance of love in Sonnet 98 . " From you have I been absent in the spring Bb 2 19 jects which he presents. Unaided by any pre- ...
... ? Inopem me copia fecit . How true it is to nature , he has himself finely expressed in the instance of love in Sonnet 98 . " From you have I been absent in the spring Bb 2 19 jects which he presents. Unaided by any pre- ...
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... Though alas ! even our prose writings , nay even the stile of our more set discourses , strive to be in the fashion , and trick themselves out in the soiled and over - worn finery of the meretricious muse . It is true , that of late a 24.
... Though alas ! even our prose writings , nay even the stile of our more set discourses , strive to be in the fashion , and trick themselves out in the soiled and over - worn finery of the meretricious muse . It is true , that of late a 24.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. muse . It is true , that of late a great improve- ment in this respect is observable in our most popular writers . But it is equally true , that this recurrence to plain sense , and genuine mother English , is ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. muse . It is true , that of late a great improve- ment in this respect is observable in our most popular writers . But it is equally true , that this recurrence to plain sense , and genuine mother English , is ...
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... true good will , Her company to Stephen Hill ; And she was blithe and gay , And she was happy , happy still Whene'er she thought of Stephen HiM . And they had fix'd the wedding - day , The morning that must wed them both ; But Stephen ...
... true good will , Her company to Stephen Hill ; And she was blithe and gay , And she was happy , happy still Whene'er she thought of Stephen HiM . And they had fix'd the wedding - day , The morning that must wed them both ; But Stephen ...
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... true being of things , the sole solution of their modes of existence , and in the knowledge of which consists our dignity and our power . As little can I agree with the assertion , that from the objects with which the rustic hourly ...
... true being of things , the sole solution of their modes of existence , and in the knowledge of which consists our dignity and our power . As little can I agree with the assertion , that from the objects with which the rustic hourly ...
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