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With many parts of this preface in the sense attributed to them and which the words undoubtedly seem to authorise , I never concurred ; but on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in principle , and as contradictory ( in ...
With many parts of this preface in the sense attributed to them and which the words undoubtedly seem to authorise , I never concurred ; but on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in principle , and as contradictory ( in ...
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... and yet obvious 9 ) * A'me pvgrověs , a phrase which I have borrowed from a Greek monk , who applies it to a Patriarch of Constantinople . I might have said , that I have reclaimed , rather than borrowed it : for it seems to belong ...
... and yet obvious 9 ) * A'me pvgrověs , a phrase which I have borrowed from a Greek monk , who applies it to a Patriarch of Constantinople . I might have said , that I have reclaimed , rather than borrowed it : for it seems to belong ...
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His “ Venus and Adonis " seem at once the characters themselves , and the whole representation of those characters by the most consummate actors . You seem to be told nothing , but to see and hear every thing .
His “ Venus and Adonis " seem at once the characters themselves , and the whole representation of those characters by the most consummate actors . You seem to be told nothing , but to see and hear every thing .
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Yet seem'd it winter still , and you away , As with your shadow I with these did play ! Scarcely less sure , or if a less valuable , not less indispensable mark Γονιμο μέν Ποιητα osos enfea yeyvalloy haxob , will the imagery supply ...
Yet seem'd it winter still , and you away , As with your shadow I with these did play ! Scarcely less sure , or if a less valuable , not less indispensable mark Γονιμο μέν Ποιητα osos enfea yeyvalloy haxob , will the imagery supply ...
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Each in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the other . At length , in the DRAMA they were reconciled , and fought each with its shield before the breast of the other . Or like two rapid streams , that at their ...
Each in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the other . At length , in the DRAMA they were reconciled , and fought each with its shield before the breast of the other . Or like two rapid streams , that at their ...
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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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