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And real in this sense they have been to every human being who , from whatever
source of delusion , has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency .
For the second class , subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ; the ...
And real in this sense they have been to every human being who , from whatever
source of delusion , has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency .
For the second class , subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ; the ...
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With many parts of this preface in the sense attributed to them and which the
words undoubtedly seem to authorise , I never concurred ; but on the contrary
objected to them as erroneous in principle , and as contradictory ( in appearance
at ...
With many parts of this preface in the sense attributed to them and which the
words undoubtedly seem to authorise , I never concurred ; but on the contrary
objected to them as erroneous in principle , and as contradictory ( in appearance
at ...
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... by metre , or by rhyme , or by both conjointly . In this , the lowest sense , a man
might attribute the name of a poem to the well known enumeration of the days in
the several months ; “ Thirty days hath September , April , June , and November ...
... by metre , or by rhyme , or by both conjointly . In this , the lowest sense , a man
might attribute the name of a poem to the well known enumeration of the days in
the several months ; “ Thirty days hath September , April , June , and November ...
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The first chapter of Isaiah ( indeed a very large proportion of the whole book ) is
poetry in the most emphatic sense ; yet it would be not less irrational than strange
to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate object of the prophet .
The first chapter of Isaiah ( indeed a very large proportion of the whole book ) is
poetry in the most emphatic sense ; yet it would be not less irrational than strange
to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate object of the prophet .
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crete ; the idea , with the image ; the individual , with the representative ; the
sense of novelty . and freshness , with old and familiar objects ; a more than
usual state of emotion , with more than usual order ; judgement ever awake and
steady ...
crete ; the idea , with the image ; the individual , with the representative ; the
sense of novelty . and freshness , with old and familiar objects ; a more than
usual state of emotion , with more than usual order ; judgement ever awake and
steady ...
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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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