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... supposed , that a youth can think in Latin , or that he can have any other reliance on the force or fitness of his phrases , but the authority of the author from whence he has adopted them . Consequently he must first prepare his ...
... supposed , that a youth can think in Latin , or that he can have any other reliance on the force or fitness of his phrases , but the authority of the author from whence he has adopted them . Consequently he must first prepare his ...
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... Ancient Mariner . Your poem must eternal be , Dear sir ! it cannot fail , For ' tis incomprehensible And without head or tail . CHAPTER II . Supposed irritability of men of Genius - 28 that time, and so decided was the opinion con- ...
... Ancient Mariner . Your poem must eternal be , Dear sir ! it cannot fail , For ' tis incomprehensible And without head or tail . CHAPTER II . Supposed irritability of men of Genius - 28 that time, and so decided was the opinion con- ...
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... Supposed irritability of men of Genius - Brought to the test of Facts - Causes and Occasions of the charge - Its Injustice . I have often thought , that it would be neither uninstructive nor unamusing to analyze , and bring forward into ...
... Supposed irritability of men of Genius - Brought to the test of Facts - Causes and Occasions of the charge - Its Injustice . I have often thought , that it would be neither uninstructive nor unamusing to analyze , and bring forward into ...
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... supposed department ; contenting him . self with praising in his turn those whom he deems excellent . If I should ever deem it my duty at all to oppose the pretensions of indivi- duals , I would oppose them in books which could be ...
... supposed department ; contenting him . self with praising in his turn those whom he deems excellent . If I should ever deem it my duty at all to oppose the pretensions of indivi- duals , I would oppose them in books which could be ...
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... supposed able to read , and all readers able to judge , the mul- titudinous PUBLIC , shaped into personal unity by the magic of abstraction , sits nominal des- pot on the throne of criticism . But , alas ! as in other despotisms , it ...
... supposed able to read , and all readers able to judge , the mul- titudinous PUBLIC , shaped into personal unity by the magic of abstraction , sits nominal des- pot on the throne of criticism . But , alas ! as in other despotisms , it ...
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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