Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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... 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, and the power of giving the ...
... 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, and the power of giving the ...
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... Wordsworth's poems been the silly, the childish things, wbich they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of thought ...
... Wordsworth's poems been the silly, the childish things, wbich they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of thought ...
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... Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems so much greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter . Mr. Wordsworth ...
... Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems so much greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter . Mr. Wordsworth ...
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... Wordsworth's poems been the silly , the childish things , which they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of thought ...
... Wordsworth's poems been the silly , the childish things , which they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of thought ...
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... , Which SHAKSPEARE spake ; the faith and morals hold , Which MILTON held . In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood , have titles manifold ! WORDSWORTH . CHAPTER XVI . Striking points of difference between the Poets 22.
... , Which SHAKSPEARE spake ; the faith and morals hold , Which MILTON held . In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood , have titles manifold ! WORDSWORTH . CHAPTER XVI . Striking points of difference between the Poets 22.
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