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Page 84
In the one case the reader is utterly at the mercy of the poet respecting what
imagery or diction he may choose to connect he would wait for them there . They
parted , and his comrades passed that way some two hours after , but they did not
...
In the one case the reader is utterly at the mercy of the poet respecting what
imagery or diction he may choose to connect he would wait for them there . They
parted , and his comrades passed that way some two hours after , but they did not
...
Page 97
Let the reader then only adopt the pronunciation of the poet and of the court , at
which he lived , both with respect to the final e and to the accentuation of the last
syllable : I would then venture to ask , what even in the colloquial language of ...
Let the reader then only adopt the pronunciation of the poet and of the court , at
which he lived , both with respect to the final e and to the accentuation of the last
syllable : I would then venture to ask , what even in the colloquial language of ...
Page 110
It respects the propriety of the word , “ scene , ” even in the sentence in which it is
retained . DRYDEN , and he only in his more careless verses , was the first as far
as my researches have discovered , who for the convenience of rhyme used ...
It respects the propriety of the word , “ scene , ” even in the sentence in which it is
retained . DRYDEN , and he only in his more careless verses , was the first as far
as my researches have discovered , who for the convenience of rhyme used ...
Page 118
All enmity , all envy , they disclaim , Disinterested thieves of our good name :
Cool , sober murderers of their neighbour's fame ! " S. T. c . Every censure , every
sarcasm respecting a publication which the critic , with the criticised work ...
All enmity , all envy , they disclaim , Disinterested thieves of our good name :
Cool , sober murderers of their neighbour's fame ! " S. T. c . Every censure , every
sarcasm respecting a publication which the critic , with the criticised work ...
Page 142
Such may be deservedly entitled the creative words in the world of imagination .
The second division respects an apparent minute adherence to matter - of - fact
in character and incidents ; a biographical attention to probability , and 142.
Such may be deservedly entitled the creative words in the world of imagination .
The second division respects an apparent minute adherence to matter - of - fact
in character and incidents ; a biographical attention to probability , and 142.
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| Title | Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Publisher | R. Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 13 Jan 2006 |
| Length | 309 pages |
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