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Page viii
... become words , in emotions only as they add fine raptures to printed pages . To such critics we owe rules and systems ; when they tabulate or clucidate metre or any principle of form they are doing a humble but useful service to artists ...
... become words , in emotions only as they add fine raptures to printed pages . To such critics we owe rules and systems ; when they tabulate or clucidate metre or any principle of form they are doing a humble but useful service to artists ...
Page ix
... become naturally , inevitably , critics . I pity the poets who are guided solely by instinct ; they seem to me incomplete . In the spiritual life of the former there must come a crisis when they would think out their art , discover the ...
... become naturally , inevitably , critics . I pity the poets who are guided solely by instinct ; they seem to me incomplete . In the spiritual life of the former there must come a crisis when they would think out their art , discover the ...
Page xiv
... become authors XII . A Chapter of requests and premonitions concerning the perusal or omission of the chapter that follows XIII . On the Imagination , or Esemplastic power . XIV . Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads , and the objects ...
... become authors XII . A Chapter of requests and premonitions concerning the perusal or omission of the chapter that follows XIII . On the Imagination , or Esemplastic power . XIV . Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads , and the objects ...
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... become less and less striking , in proportion to its success in improv- ing the taste and judgment of its contemporaries . The 1 remember a ludicrous instance in the poem of a young tradesman ! " No more will I endure love's pleasing ...
... become less and less striking , in proportion to its success in improv- ing the taste and judgment of its contemporaries . The 1 remember a ludicrous instance in the poem of a young tradesman ! " No more will I endure love's pleasing ...
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... become acquainted with the author , and begged to hear it recited : when , to my no less surprise than amusement , it proved to be one which I had myself some time before written and inserted in the " Morning Post , " to wit- To the ...
... become acquainted with the author , and begged to hear it recited : when , to my no less surprise than amusement , it proved to be one which I had myself some time before written and inserted in the " Morning Post , " to wit- To the ...
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