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... by the modifying colours 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.
... by the modifying colours 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.
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... modifying colours 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 .
... modifying colours 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 .
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... yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment , which constitutes poetic faith .
... yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment , which constitutes poetic faith .
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My own conclusions on the nature of poetry , in the strictest use of the word , have been in part anticipated in the preceding disquisition on the fancy and imagination . What is poetry ? is so nearly the same question with , what is a ...
My own conclusions on the nature of poetry , in the strictest use of the word , have been in part anticipated in the preceding disquisition on the fancy and imagination . What is poetry ? is so nearly the same question with , what is a ...
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“ Doubtless , " as Sir John Davies observes of the soul ( and his words may with slight alteration be applied , and even more appropriately to the poetic IMAGINATION . ) “ Doubtless this could not be , but that she turns Bodies to ...
“ Doubtless , " as Sir John Davies observes of the soul ( and his words may with slight alteration be applied , and even more appropriately to the poetic IMAGINATION . ) “ Doubtless this could not be , but that she turns Bodies to ...
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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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