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... causes . In the truly great poets , he would say , there is a reason assignable , not only for every word , but for the position of every word ; and I well remember , that availing himself of the syno- nimes to the Homer of Didymus , he ...
... causes . In the truly great poets , he would say , there is a reason assignable , not only for every word , but for the position of every word ; and I well remember , that availing himself of the syno- nimes to the Homer of Didymus , he ...
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... causes , which this is not the place to investigate , no models of past times , however perfect , can have the same vivid effect on the youthful mind , as the productions of contem- porary genius . The Discipline , my mind had undergone ...
... causes , which this is not the place to investigate , no models of past times , however perfect , can have the same vivid effect on the youthful mind , as the productions of contem- porary genius . The Discipline , my mind had undergone ...
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... cause or impulse Percy's collection of Ballads may bear to the most popular poems of the present day ; yet in the more sustained and elevated style , of the * Į remember a ludicrous instance in the poem of a young tradesman : " No more ...
... cause or impulse Percy's collection of Ballads may bear to the most popular poems of the present day ; yet in the more sustained and elevated style , of the * Į remember a ludicrous instance in the poem of a young tradesman : " No more ...
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... Causes and Occasions of the charge - Its Injustice . I have often thought , that it would be neither uninstructive nor unamusing to analyze , and bring forward into distinct consciousness , that complex feeling , with which readers in ...
... Causes and Occasions of the charge - Its Injustice . I have often thought , that it would be neither uninstructive nor unamusing to analyze , and bring forward into distinct consciousness , that complex feeling , with which readers in ...
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... causes have diffused over all his compositions " a melancholy grace , " and have drawn forth occasional strains , the more pathetic from their gentleness . But no where do we find the least trace of irritability , and still less of ...
... causes have diffused over all his compositions " a melancholy grace , " and have drawn forth occasional strains , the more pathetic from their gentleness . But no where do we find the least trace of irritability , and still less of ...
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Biographia Literaria Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Samuel Taylor Coleridge No preview available - 2019 |
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admiration appear Aristotle beauty BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA blank verse cause character commencement common compositions consciousness criticism DANE defects diction distinct effect English equally excellence excitement existence express faculty fancy feelings former French genius German German language greater Greek ground heart honor human idea images imagination imitation instance intellectual intelligence interest jacobinism judgement Klopstock knowledge language latter least less lines literary Lyrical Ballads meaning ment merit metre Milton mind mode moral nature never notions object once original passage passion perhaps person philosopher Pindar Plato pleasure Plotinus poem poet poetic poetry possible present principles prose racter Ratzeburg reader reason rhyme S. T. COLERIDGE scarcely sense sonnet soul Southey Spinoza spirit stanzas style supposed Synesius taste thing thou thought tion translation true truth Venus and Adonis verse whole words Wordsworth writer