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... once to the example of Alexander and Clytus , which was equally good and apt , whatever might be the theme . Was it ambition ? Alexander and Clytus ! - Flattery ? Alexander and Clytus ! -Anger ? Drunkenness ? Pride ? Friendship ...
... once to the example of Alexander and Clytus , which was equally good and apt , whatever might be the theme . Was it ambition ? Alexander and Clytus ! - Flattery ? Alexander and Clytus ! -Anger ? Drunkenness ? Pride ? Friendship ...
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... once increased their influence , and my enthusiasm . The great works of past ages seem to a young man things of another race , in respect to which his faculties must remain passive and submiss , even as to the stars and mountains . But ...
... once increased their influence , and my enthusiasm . The great works of past ages seem to a young man things of another race , in respect to which his faculties must remain passive and submiss , even as to the stars and mountains . But ...
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... once trite , and licen- tious . The second , on low , creeping language and thoughts , under the pretence of simplicity . And the third , the phrases of which were bor- rowed entirely from my own poems , on the indiscriminate use of ...
... once trite , and licen- tious . The second , on low , creeping language and thoughts , under the pretence of simplicity . And the third , the phrases of which were bor- rowed entirely from my own poems , on the indiscriminate use of ...
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... once gone to all the world must die ; The earth can yield me but a common grave , When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie . Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes not yet created shall o'er - read ; And tongues to be your ...
... once gone to all the world must die ; The earth can yield me but a common grave , When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie . Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes not yet created shall o'er - read ; And tongues to be your ...
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... once both instrument and tune , Thus even the deaf may play , so as to delight the many . Sometimes ( for it is with similies , as it is with jests at a wine table , one is sure to suggest another ) I have attempted to illustrate the ...
... once both instrument and tune , Thus even the deaf may play , so as to delight the many . Sometimes ( for it is with similies , as it is with jests at a wine table , one is sure to suggest another ) I have attempted to illustrate the ...
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Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions No preview available - 2020 |
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