“The” Works of Thomas De Quincey: Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake poets ; Coleridge, Wordsworth and SoutheyA. & C. Black, 1863 |
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... person of a little girl , not much , if any- thing , above nine years old , could face an occasion of sud- den mysterious abandonment , and could tower up , during one night , into the perfect energies of womanhood , under the mere ...
... person of a little girl , not much , if any- thing , above nine years old , could face an occasion of sud- den mysterious abandonment , and could tower up , during one night , into the perfect energies of womanhood , under the mere ...
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... person in and out , in order to lay hold of this or that intercessor who might have , or might seem to have , some weight with the principal person concerned . This I think it interesting to notice , as the last occupa- tion which is ...
... person in and out , in order to lay hold of this or that intercessor who might have , or might seem to have , some weight with the principal person concerned . This I think it interesting to notice , as the last occupa- tion which is ...
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... person to be important in the estimation of strangers , and , of all pos- sible situations , to be important at a sale , where the public attention was naturally fixed upon the chief purchasers , and the attention of the purchasers ...
... person to be important in the estimation of strangers , and , of all pos- sible situations , to be important at a sale , where the public attention was naturally fixed upon the chief purchasers , and the attention of the purchasers ...
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... persons ( persons , I mean , so mature in years and in local knowledge ) , the opposition could not be very obstinate ; party after party rode off ; the meeting melted away , or , as the northern phrase is , scaled ; * and at length ...
... persons ( persons , I mean , so mature in years and in local knowledge ) , the opposition could not be very obstinate ; party after party rode off ; the meeting melted away , or , as the northern phrase is , scaled ; * and at length ...
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... persons who seemed likely , either from old age or from slender means , or from nearer and more personal respon- sibilities , to be under the necessity of devolving the trust , sooner or later , upon strangers , who might have none of ...
... persons who seemed likely , either from old age or from slender means , or from nearer and more personal respon- sibilities , to be under the necessity of devolving the trust , sooner or later , upon strangers , who might have none of ...
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accident admiration afterwards Ambleside amongst ancient beauty believe Biographia Literaria Borrowdale brother Buttermere called Cambridge cause character chiefly circumstances Coleridge Coleridge's connexion cottage Cumberland Easedale effect England English Esthwaite Water expression face fact feelings German Grasmere habits happened Hawkshead heard heart Helvellyn hills honour hope human impression intellectual interest Keswick lady Lake Langdale least literary literature lived looked Lord Lord Lonsdale marriage Meantime mighty miles Milton mind Miss Wordsworth mountains nature Nether Stowey never night once party passed passion peculiar Penrith perhaps person plagiarism poem poet poetry Quantock Hills reader reason regard remarkable respect river Greta road Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sarah Green scene seemed sense sister solitary solitude Southey Southey's spirit sublime supposed thought tion town vale walking Westmoreland whilst whole William Wordsworth woman word young youth
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Página 119 - Imagination. 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 202 - The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Página 133 - She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view...
Página 204 - The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy.
Página 24 - Now do these sternly-featured hills Look gently on this grave ; And quiet now are the depths of air, As a sea without a wave. But deeper lies the heart of peace In quiet more profound ; The heart of quietness is here Within this churchyard bound. And from all agony of mind It keeps them safe, and far From fear and grief, and from all need Of sun or guiding star.
Página 97 - Worlds of fine thinking lie buried in that vast abyss, never to be disentombed or restored to human admiration. Like the sea it has swallowed treasures without end, that no diving bell will bring up again. But nowhere throughout its shoreless magazines of wealth, does there lie such a bed of pearls confounded with the rubbish and ' purgamenta ' of ages, as in the political papers of Coleridge.
Página 55 - ... business, into a continuous strain of eloquent dissertation, certainly the most novel, the most finely illustrated, and traversing the most spacious fields of thought by transitions the most just and logical, that it was possible to conceive. What I mean by saying that his transitions were "just" is by way of contradistinction to that mode of conversation which courts variety through links of verbal connexions.
Página 42 - ... my own exchequer : and the other day, at a dinner party, this question arising about Pythagoras and his beans, Coleridge gave us an interpretation, which, from his manner, I suspect to have been not original. Think, therefore, if you have anywhere read a plausible solution.
Página 87 - Coleridge said often, in looking back upon that frightful exposure of human guilt and misery, that the man who, when pursued by these heartrending apostrophes, and with this litany of anguish sounding in his ears, from despairing women and from famishing children, could yet find it possible to enjoy the calm pleasures of a Lake tourist, and deliberately to hunt for the picturesque, must have been a fiend of that order which fortunately does not often emerge amongst men.
Página 52 - There was no mauvaise honte in his manner, but simple perplexity, and an apparent difficulty in recovering his position amongst daylight realities. This little scene over, he received me with a kindness of manner so marked, that it might be called gracious. The hospitable family with whom he was domesticated were distinguished for their amiable manners and enlightened understandings: they were descendants from Chubb, the philosophic writer, and bore the same name. For Coleridge they all testified...