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Striking points of difference between the Poets of the present age and those of the 15th and 16th centuries - Wish expressed for the union of the characteristic merits of both . Christendom , from its first settlement on feudal rights ...
Striking points of difference between the Poets of the present age and those of the 15th and 16th centuries - Wish expressed for the union of the characteristic merits of both . Christendom , from its first settlement on feudal rights ...
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In the present age the poet ( I would wish to be understood as speaking generally , and without allusion to individual names ) seems to propose to himself as his main object , and as that which is the most characteristic of his art ...
In the present age the poet ( I would wish to be understood as speaking generally , and without allusion to individual names ) seems to propose to himself as his main object , and as that which is the most characteristic of his art ...
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An artist , whose writings are scarcely less valuable than his works , and to whose authority more deference will be willingly paid , than I could even wish , should be shewn to mine , has told us , and from his own experience too ...
An artist , whose writings are scarcely less valuable than his works , and to whose authority more deference will be willingly paid , than I could even wish , should be shewn to mine , has told us , and from his own experience too ...
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I " Nay , rack your brain — ' tis all in vain , I'll tell you every thing I know ; But to the Thorn , and to the Pond Which is a little step beyond , I wish that you would go : Perhaps , when you are at the place , You something of her ...
I " Nay , rack your brain — ' tis all in vain , I'll tell you every thing I know ; But to the Thorn , and to the Pond Which is a little step beyond , I wish that you would go : Perhaps , when you are at the place , You something of her ...
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No more I know , I wish I did , And I would tell it all to you ; For what became of this poor child There's none that ever knew : And if a child was born or no , There's no one that could ever tell ; And if ' twas born alive or dead ...
No more I know , I wish I did , And I would tell it all to you ; For what became of this poor child There's none that ever knew : And if a child was born or no , There's no one that could ever tell ; And if ' twas born alive or dead ...
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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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