Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey

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Wiley and Putnam, 1847 - 388 páginas
 

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Página 329 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página 12 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication : and upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the earth.
Página 71 - And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
Página 226 - What little suppers, or sizings, as they were called, have I enjoyed; when ^Eschylus, and Plato, and Thucydides, were pushed aside, with a pile of lexicons, &c., to discuss the pamphlets of the day. Ever and anon, a pamphlet issued from the pen of Burke. There was no need of having the book before us; Coleridge had read it in the morning, and in the evening he would repeat whole pages verbatim.
Página 14 - that these Lectures are intended for two classes of men, Christians and Infidels ;— the former, that they may be able to give a reason for the hope that is in them ; — the latter, that they may not determine against Christianity from arguments applicable to its corruptions only.
Página 244 - Why, Davy could eat them all! There is an energy, an elasticity in his mind, which enables him to seize on, and analyze all questions, pushing them to their legitimate consequences. Every subject in Davy's mind has the principle of vitality. Living thoughts spring up like turf under his feet.
Página 256 - The common end of all narrative, nay, of all, Poems is to convert a series into a Whole : to make those events, which in real or imagined History move on in a strait Line, assume to our Understandings a circular motion — the snake with it's Tail in it's Mouth.
Página 273 - ... the dreary history. Suffice it to say, that effects were produced which acted on me by terror and cowardice, of pain and sudden death, not (so help me God!) by any temptation of pleasure, or expectation or desire of exciting pleasurable sensations.
Página 246 - When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
Página 295 - ... can give ; I now, on the eve of my departure, declare to you, and earnestly pray that you may hereafter live and act on the conviction, that health is a great blessing ; competence, obtained by honourable industry, a great blessing ; and a great blessing it is, to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives ; but that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

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