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... immediately on my present subject . Among those with whom I conversed , there were , of course , very many who had formed their taste , and their notions of poetry , from the writings of Mr. Pope and his followers or to speak more ...
... immediately on my present subject . Among those with whom I conversed , there were , of course , very many who had formed their taste , and their notions of poetry , from the writings of Mr. Pope and his followers or to speak more ...
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... immediate offer , on the score that " he was , he must acknowledge the author of a confounded severe epigram on my ancient mariner , which had given me great pain . I as- sured my friend that if the epigram was a good one , it would ...
... immediate offer , on the score that " he was , he must acknowledge the author of a confounded severe epigram on my ancient mariner , which had given me great pain . I as- sured my friend that if the epigram was a good one , it would ...
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... immediate impressions of the senses , do , we well know , render the mind liable to superstition and fanaticism . Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth . minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth ...
... immediate impressions of the senses , do , we well know , render the mind liable to superstition and fanaticism . Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth . minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth ...
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... immediate reputa- tion . Through all the works of Chaucer there reigns a chearfulness , a manly hilarity , which makes it almost impossible to doubt a corres- pondent habit of feeling in the author himself . Shakspeare's evenness and ...
... immediate reputa- tion . Through all the works of Chaucer there reigns a chearfulness , a manly hilarity , which makes it almost impossible to doubt a corres- pondent habit of feeling in the author himself . Shakspeare's evenness and ...
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... immediate juxta - position with the first thought , which is rendered possible by the whole attention being suc- cessively absorbed in each singly , so as not to notice the in- terjacent notion , " changed " which by its incongruity ...
... immediate juxta - position with the first thought , which is rendered possible by the whole attention being suc- cessively absorbed in each singly , so as not to notice the in- terjacent notion , " changed " which by its incongruity ...
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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