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From this preface, prefixed to poems in which it was impossible to deny the presence of original genius, however mistaken its direction might be deemed, arose the whole long continued controversy. For from the conjunction of perceived ...
From this preface, prefixed to poems in which it was impossible to deny the presence of original genius, however mistaken its direction might be deemed, arose the whole long continued controversy. For from the conjunction of perceived ...
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From this preface , prefixed to poems in which it was impossible to deny the presence of original genius , however mistaken its direction might be deemed , arose the whole long continued controversy . For from the conjunction of ...
From this preface , prefixed to poems in which it was impossible to deny the presence of original genius , however mistaken its direction might be deemed , arose the whole long continued controversy . For from the conjunction of ...
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From these I abstracted the following marks , as characteristics of original poetic genius in general . 1. In the “ Venus and Adonis , ” the first and most obvious excellence is the perfect sweetness of the versification ...
From these I abstracted the following marks , as characteristics of original poetic genius in general . 1. In the “ Venus and Adonis , ” the first and most obvious excellence is the perfect sweetness of the versification ...
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... though faithfully copied from nature , and as accurately represented in words , do not of themselves characterize the poet . They become proofs of original genius only Въ as far as they are modified by a predominant passion 17.
... though faithfully copied from nature , and as accurately represented in words , do not of themselves characterize the poet . They become proofs of original genius only Въ as far as they are modified by a predominant passion 17.
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... and the dramatic propriety of those figures and metaphors in the original poets , which stript of their justifying reasons , and converted into mere artifices of connection or ornament , constitute the characteristic falsity in the ...
... and the dramatic propriety of those figures and metaphors in the original poets , which stript of their justifying reasons , and converted into mere artifices of connection or ornament , constitute the characteristic falsity in the ...
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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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