Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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... poem and poetry with scholia. During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations ... poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatu- Aa ...
... poem and poetry with scholia. During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations ... poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatu- Aa ...
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... 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 thought ; had they ...
... 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 thought ; had they ...
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... poem and poetry with scholia . DURING the first year that Mr. Words- worth and I were neighbours , our conversations ... poems might be composed of two sorts . In the one , the incidents and agents were to be , in part at least ...
... poem and poetry with scholia . DURING the first year that Mr. Words- worth and I were neighbours , our conversations ... poems might be composed of two sorts . In the one , the incidents and agents were to be , in part at least ...
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... 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 , and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural , by awakening the mind's ...
... 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 , and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural , by awakening the mind's ...
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... poems , theDark Ladie , " and the Christobel , " in which I should have more nearly realized my ideal , than I had done in my first attempt . But Mr. Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems ...
... poems , theDark Ladie , " and the Christobel , " in which I should have more nearly realized my ideal , than I had done in my first attempt . But Mr. Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems ...
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