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Meanings of spontaneous overflow in English
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Usage of spontaneous overflow in English
1
He urges men not to over-study language; their speech must be simple, the natural, spontaneous overflow of the heart.
2
The theory which Wordsworth and Coleridge formulated was simply this: that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful human feeling.
3
According to Wordsworth, "poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity."
4
Suddenly there sprang to his lips an unbidden laugh, a spontaneous overflow from the joy of his heart; the first he had uttered for days.
5
There is no learning except from a beginning in unlearned powers, but learning is not a matter of the spontaneous overflow of the unlearned powers.