Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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... imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moon-light or sun-set diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both. These are the poetry of nature. The ...
... imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moon-light or sun-set diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both. These are the poetry of nature. The ...
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... imagination . The sudden charm , which accidents of light and shade , which moon - light or sun - set diffused over a known and familiar landscape , appeared to represent the practicability of combining both . These are the poetry of ...
... imagination . The sudden charm , which accidents of light and shade , which moon - light or sun - set diffused over a known and familiar landscape , appeared to represent the practicability of combining both . These are the poetry of ...
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... imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment , which constitutes poetic faith . Mr. Words- worth , on the other hand , was to propose to him- self as his object , to give the charm of novelty to things of every day ...
... imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment , which constitutes poetic faith . Mr. Words- worth , on the other hand , was to propose to him- self as his object , to give the charm of novelty to things of every day ...
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... imagination . What is poetry ? is so nearly the same question with , what is a poet ? that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other . For it is a dis- tinction resulting from the poetic genius it- self , which ...
... imagination . What is poetry ? is so nearly the same question with , what is a poet ? that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other . For it is a dis- tinction resulting from the poetic genius it- self , which ...
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... IMAGINATION . ) 66 " Doubtless this could not be , but that she turns Bodies to spirit by sublimation strange , As fire converts to fire the things it burns , As we our food into our nature change . From their gross matter she abstracts ...
... IMAGINATION . ) 66 " Doubtless this could not be , but that she turns Bodies to spirit by sublimation strange , As fire converts to fire the things it burns , As we our food into our nature change . From their gross matter she abstracts ...
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