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... common to Prose and Poetry , exemplified by speci- mens from Chaucer , Herbert , and others · PAGE • · 217 XXI . Remarks on the present mode of conducting critical journals · · XXII . The characteristic defects of Wordsworth's poetry ...
... common to Prose and Poetry , exemplified by speci- mens from Chaucer , Herbert , and others · PAGE • · 217 XXI . Remarks on the present mode of conducting critical journals · · XXII . The characteristic defects of Wordsworth's poetry ...
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... anecdote will not be wholly out of place here , and may perhaps amuse the reader . An amateur performer in verse expressed to a common friend will I trust regard them as reprinted for biographical pur- 14 Biographia Literaria.
... anecdote will not be wholly out of place here , and may perhaps amuse the reader . An amateur performer in verse expressed to a common friend will I trust regard them as reprinted for biographical pur- 14 Biographia Literaria.
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... common , which they do not possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature , a strong desire to be introduced to me , but hesitated in accepting my friend's immediate offer , on the score that " he was , he must acknowledge ...
... common , which they do not possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature , a strong desire to be introduced to me , but hesitated in accepting my friend's immediate offer , on the score that " he was , he must acknowledge ...
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... common error of his age , an error far from being sufficiently exploded even at the present day . It consists ( as I explained at large , and proved in detail in my public lectures , ) in mistaking for the essentials of the Greek stage ...
... common error of his age , an error far from being sufficiently exploded even at the present day . It consists ( as I explained at large , and proved in detail in my public lectures , ) in mistaking for the essentials of the Greek stage ...
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... common grave , When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie . Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes not yet created shall o'er - read ; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse , When all the breathers of this world are ...
... common grave , When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie . Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes not yet created shall o'er - read ; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse , When all the breathers of this world are ...
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admiration appear Aristotle association beauty become BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA blank verse cause character common compositions consciousness conversation criticism Dane deemed defects diction distinct effect English equally excellence excitement existence express eyes faculty fancy feelings former genius German greater Greek ground heart honour human idea imagination imitation impression instance intellectual intelligible interest Jacobinism judgment Klopstock language latter least less lines literary Lyrical Ballads meaning merit metaphysics metre Milton mind moral motion nature never object once original Parva Naturalia passages passion perhaps person philosopher Pindar Plato pleasure Plotinus poems poet poetic poetry possess present principles prose Ratzeburg reader reason Samuel Taylor Coleridge scarcely sensation sense Shakespeare sonnets sophism soul Southey Spinoza spirit stanza style supposed Synesius talent taste things thought tion true truth VENUS AND ADONIS verse whole words Wordsworth's writer καὶ τὸ