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Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

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“The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.”