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... the usual ornaments and extra - colloquial style of poems in general , might not be so managed in the language of ordinary life as to produce the pleasureable interest , which it is the peculiar business of poetry to impart .
... the usual ornaments and extra - colloquial style of poems in general , might not be so managed in the language of ordinary life as to produce the pleasureable interest , which it is the peculiar business of poetry to impart .
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1 H tual energy of the author , which was more or less consciously felt , where it was outwardly and even boisterously denied , meeting with sentiments of aversion to his opinions , and of alarm at their consequences , produced an eddy ...
1 H tual energy of the author , which was more or less consciously felt , where it was outwardly and even boisterously denied , meeting with sentiments of aversion to his opinions , and of alarm at their consequences , produced an eddy ...
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... poetry , there will be found involved in it , as a necessary consequence , that a poem of any length neither can be , or ought to be , all poetry . Yet if an harmonious whole is to be produced , the remaining parts must be preserved ...
... poetry , there will be found involved in it , as a necessary consequence , that a poem of any length neither can be , or ought to be , all poetry . Yet if an harmonious whole is to be produced , the remaining parts must be preserved ...
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In this investigation , I could not , I thought , do better , than keep before me the earliest work of the greatest genius , that perhaps human nature has yet produced , our myriad - minded * Shakspear . I mean the “ Venus and Adonis ...
In this investigation , I could not , I thought , do better , than keep before me the earliest work of the greatest genius , that perhaps human nature has yet produced , our myriad - minded * Shakspear . I mean the “ Venus and Adonis ...
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But the sense of musical delight , with the power of producing it , is a gift of imagination ; and this together with the power of reduc; ing multitude into unity of effect , and modifying a series of thoughts by some one predominant ...
But the sense of musical delight , with the power of producing it , is a gift of imagination ; and this together with the power of reduc; ing multitude into unity of effect , and modifying a series of thoughts by some one predominant ...
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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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