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Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly, the childish things, wbich they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of ...
Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly, the childish things, wbich they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of ...
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But Mr. Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems so much greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter .
But Mr. Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems so much greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter .
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Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly , the childish things , which they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of ...
Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly , the childish things , which they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of ...
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A poem contains the same elements as a prose composition ; the difference therefore must consist in a different combination of them , in consequence of a different object proposed . According to the difference of the object will be the ...
A poem contains the same elements as a prose composition ; the difference therefore must consist in a different combination of them , in consequence of a different object proposed . According to the difference of the object will be the ...
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cipating the recurrence of sounds and quantities , all compositions that have this charm superadded , whatever be their contents , may be entitled poems . So much for the superficial form . A difference of object and contents supplies ...
cipating the recurrence of sounds and quantities , all compositions that have this charm superadded , whatever be their contents , may be entitled poems . So much for the superficial form . A difference of object and contents supplies ...
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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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