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... language the product of philosophers , not of clowns or shepherds - Poetry essentially ideal and generic - The language of Milton as much the language of real life , yea , incomparably more so than that of the cottager · · XVIII . Language ...
... language the product of philosophers , not of clowns or shepherds - Poetry essentially ideal and generic - The language of Milton as much the language of real life , yea , incomparably more so than that of the cottager · · XVIII . Language ...
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... language , such as blood - stained , terror - stricken , self - applauding : or when a new epithet , or one found in books only , is hazarded , that it , at least , be one word , not two words made one by mere virtue of the printer's ...
... language , such as blood - stained , terror - stricken , self - applauding : or when a new epithet , or one found in books only , is hazarded , that it , at least , be one word , not two words made one by mere virtue of the printer's ...
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... language , though indeed partly owing to a wrong choice of subjects , and the desire of giving a poetic colour- ing to abstract and metaphysical truths , in which a new world then seemed to open upon me , did yet , in part like- wise ...
... language , though indeed partly owing to a wrong choice of subjects , and the desire of giving a poetic colour- ing to abstract and metaphysical truths , in which a new world then seemed to open upon me , did yet , in part like- wise ...
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... simpler words of the same language , without loss of sense or dignity , is bad . N.B. - By dignity I mean the absence of ludicrous and debasing associations . and ever - returning phrases , both introductory , and 4 Biographia Literaria.
... simpler words of the same language , without loss of sense or dignity , is bad . N.B. - By dignity I mean the absence of ludicrous and debasing associations . and ever - returning phrases , both introductory , and 4 Biographia Literaria.
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... language of poetry . On this last point , I had occasion to render my own thoughts gradually more and more plain to myself , by frequent amicable disputes concerning Darwin's Botanic Garden , which , for some years , was greatly ...
... language of poetry . On this last point , I had occasion to render my own thoughts gradually more and more plain to myself , by frequent amicable disputes concerning Darwin's Botanic Garden , which , for some years , was greatly ...
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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