Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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... WORDSWORTH ; namely , that this style of poetry , which I have characterised above , as translations of prose thoughts into poetic language , had been kept up by , if it did not wholly arise from , the custom of writing Latin verses ...
... WORDSWORTH ; namely , that this style of poetry , which I have characterised above , as translations of prose thoughts into poetic language , had been kept up by , if it did not wholly arise from , the custom of writing Latin verses ...
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... WORDSWORTH'S ROB ROY . " Your name from hence immorta ! life shall have , Tho ' I 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 ...
... WORDSWORTH'S ROB ROY . " Your name from hence immorta ! life shall have , Tho ' I 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 ...
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... Wordsworth's conversation , I had been induced to re - examine with impartial strictness Gray's celebrated elegy . I had long before detected the defects in " the Bard ; " but " the Elegy " I had considered as proof against all fair ...
... Wordsworth's conversation , I had been induced to re - examine with impartial strictness Gray's celebrated elegy . I had long before detected the defects in " the Bard ; " but " the Elegy " I had considered as proof against all fair ...
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... Wordsworth , Mr. Southey , and I , had become neighbors ; and how utterly unfounded was the supposition , that we considered ourselves as be- longing to any common school , but that of good sense , confirmed by the long- established ...
... Wordsworth , Mr. Southey , and I , had become neighbors ; and how utterly unfounded was the supposition , that we considered ourselves as be- longing to any common school , but that of good sense , confirmed by the long- established ...
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... Wordsworth had talked contemptuously of him ; but that as to Coleridge , he had noticed him merely be- cause the names of Southey and Wordsworth and Coleridge always went to- gether . But if it were worth while to mix together , as ...
... Wordsworth had talked contemptuously of him ; but that as to Coleridge , he had noticed him merely be- cause the names of Southey and Wordsworth and Coleridge always went to- gether . But if it were worth while to mix together , as ...
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