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But it is equally true , that this recurrence to plain sense , and genuine mother English , is far from being general ; and that the composition of our novels , magazines , public harangues , & c . is commonly as trivial in thought ...
But it is equally true , that this recurrence to plain sense , and genuine mother English , is far from being general ; and that the composition of our novels , magazines , public harangues , & c . is commonly as trivial in thought ...
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As I do not remember to have seen either the poems or their author mentioned in any English work , or have found them in any of the common collections of Italian poetry ; and as the little ...
As I do not remember to have seen either the poems or their author mentioned in any English work , or have found them in any of the common collections of Italian poetry ; and as the little ...
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But such a one , on English ground , And in the broad highway I met ; Along the broad highway he came , His cheeks with tears were wet . Sturdy he seem'd , though he was sad , And in his armis a lamb he had .
But such a one , on English ground , And in the broad highway I met ; Along the broad highway he came , His cheeks with tears were wet . Sturdy he seem'd , though he was sad , And in his armis a lamb he had .
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For whether there ought to exist a class of words in the English , in any degree resembling the poetic dialect of the Greek and Italian , is a question of very subordinate importance . The number of such words would be small indeed ...
For whether there ought to exist a class of words in the English , in any degree resembling the poetic dialect of the Greek and Italian , is a question of very subordinate importance . The number of such words would be small indeed ...
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Indeed excepting the stanzas already quoted from the Sailor's Mother , I can recollect but one instance : viz . a short passage of four or five lines in THE BROTHERS , that model of English pastoral , which I never yet read with ...
Indeed excepting the stanzas already quoted from the Sailor's Mother , I can recollect but one instance : viz . a short passage of four or five lines in THE BROTHERS , that model of English pastoral , which I never yet read with ...
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| Title | Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Publisher | R. Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 13 Jan 2006 |
| Length | 309 pages |
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