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... possible , a settlement of the long 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 ...
... possible , a settlement of the long 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 ...
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... possible , the excitement of envy on their account ; and the man who should envy me on any other , verily he must be envy - mad ! Lastly , with as little semblance of reason , could I suspect any animosity towards me from vindictive ...
... possible , the excitement of envy on their account ; and the man who should envy me on any other , verily he must be envy - mad ! Lastly , with as little semblance of reason , could I suspect any animosity towards me from vindictive ...
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... possible pretext for the unthinking to miscon- strue , or the malignant to misapply my words , and having stampt their own meaning on them , to pass them as current coin in the marts of garrulity or detraction . Praises of the unworthy ...
... possible pretext for the unthinking to miscon- strue , or the malignant to misapply my words , and having stampt their own meaning on them , to pass them as current coin in the marts of garrulity or detraction . Praises of the unworthy ...
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... 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 with the first thought , " I , " constitutes the bull . Add only , that ...
... 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 with the first thought , " I , " constitutes the bull . Add only , that ...
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... possible for him so to do , compatibly with his system , which was exclusively material and mechanical . Far otherwise is it with Des Cartes ; greatly as he too in his after writings ( and still more egregiously his followers De la ...
... possible for him so to do , compatibly with his system , which was exclusively material and mechanical . Far otherwise is it with Des Cartes ; greatly as he too in his after writings ( and still more egregiously his followers De la ...
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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