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Genre:
"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"Coleridge's Literary Life [from Edinburgh Review]"
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Literary Period:
"Industrial Revolution"
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"Nineteenth Century"
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"Reform and Counterrevolution"
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"Romantic"
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"Body"
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Date: August 1817
"There is no natural harmony in the ordinary combinations of significant sounds: the language of prose is not the language of music, or of passion: and it is to supply this inherent defect in the mechanism of language--to make the sound an echo to the sense, when the sense becomes a sort of echo ...
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)