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... possess . My judgment was stronger than were my powers of realizing its dictates ; and the faults of my language , though indeed partly owing to a wrong choice of subjects , and the desire of giving a poetic colour- ing to abstract and ...
... possess . My judgment was stronger than were my powers of realizing its dictates ; and the faults of my language , though indeed partly owing to a wrong choice of subjects , and the desire of giving a poetic colour- ing to abstract and ...
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... possess a reality for him , and inspire an actual friendship as of a man for a man . His very admiration is the wind which fans and feeds his hope . The poems themselves assume the pro- perties of flesh and blood . To recite , to extol ...
... possess a reality for him , and inspire an actual friendship as of a man for a man . His very admiration is the wind which fans and feeds his hope . The poems themselves assume the pro- perties of flesh and blood . To recite , to extol ...
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... have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure , possesses the genuine power , and claims the name of essential poetry ; -secondly , that whatever lines can be translated into other Comparison between the Poets II.
... have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure , possesses the genuine power , and claims the name of essential poetry ; -secondly , that whatever lines can be translated into other Comparison between the Poets II.
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... 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 , the author of a confounded ...
... 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 , the author of a confounded ...
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... possess more than mere talent , ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of others , ) - yet still want some- thing of the creative and self - sufficing power of absolute genius . For this reason therefore , they are ...
... possess more than mere talent , ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of others , ) - yet still want some- thing of the creative and self - sufficing power of absolute genius . For this reason therefore , they 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