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... continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction : and at the same time to define with the utmost impartiality the real poetic character of the poet , by whose writings this controversy was first kindled , and has been ...
... continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction : and at the same time to define with the utmost impartiality the real poetic character of the poet , by whose writings this controversy was first kindled , and has been ...
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... relapsed into the same ⚫ The Christ Hospital phrase , not for holidays altogether , but for those on which the boys are permitted to go beyond the precincts of the school . mental disease ; if I had continued to pluck the 16.
... relapsed into the same ⚫ The Christ Hospital phrase , not for holidays altogether , but for those on which the boys are permitted to go beyond the precincts of the school . mental disease ; if I had continued to pluck the 16.
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... continued to pluck the flower and reap the harvest from the cul- tivated surface , instead of delving in the un- wholesome quicksilver mines of metaphysic depths . But if in after time I have sought a refuge from bodily pain and ...
... continued to pluck the flower and reap the harvest from the cul- tivated surface , instead of delving in the un- wholesome quicksilver mines of metaphysic depths . But if in after time I have sought a refuge from bodily pain and ...
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... continued a can- nonading . Without any feeling of anger there- fore ( for which indeed , on my own account , I have no pretext ) I may yet be allowed to ex . press some degree of surprize , that after having run the critical gauntlet ...
... continued a can- nonading . Without any feeling of anger there- fore ( for which indeed , on my own account , I have no pretext ) I may yet be allowed to ex . press some degree of surprize , that after having run the critical gauntlet ...
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... continued occasion to revere , making the usual complaints to me concerning both the style and subjects of Mr. Wordsworth's minor poems ; I admitted that there were some few of the tales and incidents , in which I could not myself find ...
... continued occasion to revere , making the usual complaints to me concerning both the style and subjects of Mr. Wordsworth's minor poems ; I admitted that there were some few of the tales and incidents , in which I could not myself find ...
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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