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... in which notwithstanding some passages of apparently a contrary import , he was understood to contend for the extension of this style to poetry of all kinds , and to reject as vicious and indefensible all phrases and forms of style ...
... in which notwithstanding some passages of apparently a contrary import , he was understood to contend for the extension of this style to poetry of all kinds , and to reject as vicious and indefensible all phrases and forms of style ...
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I should not have entered so much into detail upon this passage , but here seems to be the point , to which all the lines of difference converge as to their source and centre . ( I mean , as far as , and in whatever respect , my poetic ...
I should not have entered so much into detail upon this passage , but here seems to be the point , to which all the lines of difference converge as to their source and centre . ( I mean , as far as , and in whatever respect , my poetic ...
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... and have been spoken in his own character , are those which have given , and which will continue to give universal delight ; and that the passages exclusively appropriate to the supposed narrator , such as the last couplet of the ...
... and have been spoken in his own character , are those which have given , and which will continue to give universal delight ; and that the passages exclusively appropriate to the supposed narrator , such as the last couplet of the ...
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The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by innumerable passages from almost all the poetical writings even of Milton himself . ” He then quotes Gray's sonnet+ “ In vain to me the smiling mornings shine , And - reddening Phæbus ...
The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by innumerable passages from almost all the poetical writings even of Milton himself . ” He then quotes Gray's sonnet+ “ In vain to me the smiling mornings shine , And - reddening Phæbus ...
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The preceding passage seems to rest on a similar sophism . For the question is not , whether there may not occur in prose an order of words , which would be equally proper in a poem ; nor whether there are not beautiful lines and ...
The preceding passage seems to rest on a similar sophism . For the question is not , whether there may not occur in prose an order of words , which would be equally proper in a poem ; nor whether there are not beautiful lines and ...
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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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