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" I learned from him, that poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive... "
Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions - Page clxxi
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847
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The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Volume 2

1817 - 492 pages
...we took notice, in a single reading of the book in hand. In page 8 we have this sentence. "I learnt from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest, and...and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes." Here Mr. Coleridge either uses more in one case as an adjective, after having used it three times immediately...
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Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 312 pages
...lessons too, which required most time and trouble to bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learnt from him, that Poetry, even that of the loftiest,...complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 2

1818 - 782 pages
...same time a very severe master. * * * I learnt from him, that Poetry, even that of the loftiest and wildest odes, had a logic of its own as severe as that of science. * * * * * Lute, harp, and lyre ; muse, muses, and inspirations ; Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical ...

1834 - 614 pages
...lessons, too, which required most time and trouble to bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learned from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest, and...complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes. In our English compositions, (at least for the last three years of our school education,) he shewed...
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The History of Christ's Hospital: From Its Foundation by King Edward the ...

John Iliff Wilson - London (England) - 1821 - 348 pages
...lessons, too, which required most time and trouble to bring up so as to escape his censure. I learned from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest, and...difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependant upon more i and more fugitive causes. In our English compositions (at least for the last...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 4

1822 - 666 pages
...lessons too which required most time and trouble to bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learned from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest, and...because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more fugitive causes. In our English compositions, for the last three years of our school education, he...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

Decoration and ornament - 1820 - 474 pages
...lessons too which required most time and trouble to bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learned from him, that poetry, even that of the loftiest and,...complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...as to escape his censure. I learned from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest, aud seemiugly that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own,...of science, and more difficult; because more subtle and complex, and depeudent on more and more fugitive causes. In our English compositions (at least...
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The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral ..., Volume 4

1822 - 666 pages
...to bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learned from him that poetry, even that of the joftiest, and seemingly that of the wildest odes, had a logic...because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more fugitive causes. In our English compositions, for the last three years of our school education, he...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...lessons too which required most time and trouble to bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learned idge and complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In our English compositions (at least...
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