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DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours , our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry , the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature ...
DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours , our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry , the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature ...
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1 ral ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist ; in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions , as would naturally accompany such situations , supposing them real . And real in this sense they have ...
1 ral ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist ; in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions , as would naturally accompany such situations , supposing them real . And real in this sense they have ...
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In order to obtain adequate notions of any truth , we must intellectually separate its distinguishable parts ; and this is the technical process of philosophy . But having so done , we must then restore them in our conceptions to the ...
In order to obtain adequate notions of any truth , we must intellectually separate its distinguishable parts ; and this is the technical process of philosophy . But having so done , we must then restore them in our conceptions to the ...
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The immediate purpose may be the communication of truths ; either of truth absolute and demonstrable , as in works of science ; or of facts experienced and recorded , as in history . Pleasure , and that of the highest and most permanent ...
The immediate purpose may be the communication of truths ; either of truth absolute and demonstrable , as in works of science ; or of facts experienced and recorded , as in history . Pleasure , and that of the highest and most permanent ...
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А poem is that species of composition , which is opposed to works of science , by proposing for its immediate object pleasure , not truth ; and from all other species ( having this object in common with it ) it is discriminated by ...
А poem is that species of composition , which is opposed to works of science , by proposing for its immediate object pleasure , not truth ; and from all other species ( having this object in common with it ) it is discriminated by ...
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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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