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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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... not truth ; and from all other species ( having this object in common with it ) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole , as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part .
... not truth ; and from all other species ( having this object in common with it ) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole , as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part .
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that the whole is likewise entertaining or affecting , as a tale , or as a series of interesting reflections , I of course admit this as another fit ingredient of a poem , and an additional merit . But if the definition sought for be ...
that the whole is likewise entertaining or affecting , as a tale , or as a series of interesting reflections , I of course admit this as another fit ingredient of a poem , and an additional merit . But if the definition sought for be ...
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The first chapter of Isaiah ( indeed a very large proportion of the whole book ) is poetry in the most emphatic sense ; yet it would be not less irrational than strange to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate ...
The first chapter of Isaiah ( indeed a very large proportion of the whole book ) is poetry in the most emphatic sense ; yet it would be not less irrational than strange to assert , that pleasure , and not truth , was the immediate ...
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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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