Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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... as that the occasional differences appear evidently to arise from accident , or
the qualities of the language itself , not from meditation and an intelligent purpose
. And.the language from “ Pope's translation of Homer , " to “ Darwin's Temple of ...
... as that the occasional differences appear evidently to arise from accident , or
the qualities of the language itself , not from meditation and an intelligent purpose
. And.the language from “ Pope's translation of Homer , " to “ Darwin's Temple of ...
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After what I have advanced , it would appear presumption to offer a translation ;
even if the attempt were not discouraged by the different genius of the English
mind and language , which demands a denser body of thought as the condition
of a ...
After what I have advanced , it would appear presumption to offer a translation ;
even if the attempt were not discouraged by the different genius of the English
mind and language , which demands a denser body of thought as the condition
of a ...
Page 49
The language too of these men is adopted ( purified indeed from what appears to
be its real defects , from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust )
because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best
...
The language too of these men is adopted ( purified indeed from what appears to
be its real defects , from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust )
because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best
...
Page 89
Cowley ) a man should undertake to translate Pindar , word for word , it would be
thought that one madman had translated another ; as may appear , when he , that
understands not the original , reads the verbal traduction of him into Latin ...
Cowley ) a man should undertake to translate Pindar , word for word , it would be
thought that one madman had translated another ; as may appear , when he , that
understands not the original , reads the verbal traduction of him into Latin ...
Page 93
It might appear from some passages in the former part of Mr. Wordsworth's
preface , that he meant to confine his theory of style , and the necessity of a close
accordance with the actual language of men , to those particular subjects from
low ...
It might appear from some passages in the former part of Mr. Wordsworth's
preface , that he meant to confine his theory of style , and the necessity of a close
accordance with the actual language of men , to those particular subjects from
low ...
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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 | R. Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 13 Jan 2006 |
| Length | 309 pages |
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