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To remedy this defect, it was necessary that the language of poetry should be selected from what in common life is terms of the same obvious signification, but elevated by the power of association and the combination of ideas. The mind of man is conscious of a thousand more subtle sympathies and antipathies, of a thousand more remote recollections, than can be expressed in language. And in proportion as the subjects of poetry are more or less elevated, the language must be adapted.