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... composition , why and wherein essentially different from that of prose - Origin and elements of metre - Its necessary consequences , and the conditions thereby imposed on the metrical writer in the choice of his diction • XIX ...
... composition , why and wherein essentially different from that of prose - Origin and elements of metre - Its necessary consequences , and the conditions thereby imposed on the metrical writer in the choice of his diction • XIX ...
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... compositions : and my mind was not then sufficiently disciplined to receive the authority of others , as a substitute for my own conviction . Satisfied that the thoughts , such as they were , could not have been expressed otherwise , or ...
... compositions : and my mind was not then sufficiently disciplined to receive the authority of others , as a substitute for my own conviction . Satisfied that the thoughts , such as they were , could not have been expressed otherwise , or ...
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... compositions , ( at least for the last three years of our school education , ) he showed no mercy to phrase , metaphor , or image , unsupported by a sound sense , or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and ...
... compositions , ( at least for the last three years of our school education , ) he showed no mercy to phrase , metaphor , or image , unsupported by a sound sense , or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and ...
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... compositions which , I may venture to say , without reference to my age , were somewhat above mediocrity , and which had gained me more credit than the sound , good sense of my old master was at all pleased with , ) -poetry itself , yea ...
... compositions which , I may venture to say , without reference to my age , were somewhat above mediocrity , and which had gained me more credit than the sound , good sense of my old master was at all pleased with , ) -poetry itself , yea ...
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... composition that was at that time deemed poetry , in order to understand and account for the effect produced on me by the Sonnets , the Monody at Matlock , and the Hope , of Mr. Bowles ; for it is peculiar to original genius to become ...
... composition that was at that time deemed poetry , in order to understand and account for the effect produced on me by the Sonnets , the Monody at Matlock , and the Hope , of Mr. Bowles ; for it is peculiar to original genius to become ...
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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