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... line , and the whole was as it were a sorites , or , if I may exchange a logical for a grammatical metaphor , a conjunction disjunc- tive , of epigrams . Meantime the matter and diction seemed to me characterized not so much by poetic ...
... line , and the whole was as it were a sorites , or , if I may exchange a logical for a grammatical metaphor , a conjunction disjunc- tive , of epigrams . Meantime the matter and diction seemed to me characterized not so much by poetic ...
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... lines in Gray to their original in Shakspeare and Milton ; and in the clear perception how completely all the propriety was lost in the transfer ; I was , at that early period , led to a conjecture , which , many years afterwards was ...
... lines in Gray to their original in Shakspeare and Milton ; and in the clear perception how completely all the propriety was lost in the transfer ; I was , at that early period , led to a conjecture , which , many years afterwards was ...
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... lines , in which to embody them . I never object to a certain degree of disputa- tiousness in a young man from the age of seven- teen to that of four or five and twenty , provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question ...
... lines , in which to embody them . I never object to a certain degree of disputa- tiousness in a young man from the age of seven- teen to that of four or five and twenty , provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question ...
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... lines can be translated into other words of the same language , without dimi- nution of their significance , either in sense , or association , or in any worthy feeling , are so far vicious in their diction . Be it however observed ...
... lines can be translated into other words of the same language , without dimi- nution of their significance , either in sense , or association , or in any worthy feeling , are so far vicious in their diction . Be it however observed ...
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... line , as hieroglyphics of the author's own admiration at his own cleverness . Our genuine admiration of a great poet is a continuous under - current of feeling ; it is every where present , but seldom any where as a se- parate ...
... line , as hieroglyphics of the author's own admiration at his own cleverness . Our genuine admiration of a great poet is a continuous under - current of feeling ; it is every where present , but seldom any where as a se- parate ...
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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