Literary Reminiscences: Literary novitiate. Sir H. Davy; Mr. Godwin; Mrs. Grant. Recollections of Charles Lamb. Walladmor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. William WordsworthTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... mean of his liberal education , ) I have endeavored to explain the possibility of one so much adorned by all the accomplishments of a high - bred gen- tleman , and one so truly pious , falling into the grossness -almost the sensuality ...
... mean of his liberal education , ) I have endeavored to explain the possibility of one so much adorned by all the accomplishments of a high - bred gen- tleman , and one so truly pious , falling into the grossness -almost the sensuality ...
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... mean- time , with which he had , for many years , participated in the interests of this world , or all that it inherits , was now rapidly departing . Daily and consciously he was loosen- ing all ties which bound him to earlier ...
... mean- time , with which he had , for many years , participated in the interests of this world , or all that it inherits , was now rapidly departing . Daily and consciously he was loosen- ing all ties which bound him to earlier ...
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... mean all such as , having no strong distinctions in power of thinking or in native force of character , are yet raised into circles of pretension and mark , by the fact of having written a book , or of holding a notorious connection ...
... mean all such as , having no strong distinctions in power of thinking or in native force of character , are yet raised into circles of pretension and mark , by the fact of having written a book , or of holding a notorious connection ...
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... means pertinax . How so ? Improbus originally always has the meaning of audacious . Thus Pliny , speaking of the first cata- logue of stars made by Hipparchus , calls it ' labor itiam Deo impro- bus'- an enterprise audacious even for a ...
... means pertinax . How so ? Improbus originally always has the meaning of audacious . Thus Pliny , speaking of the first cata- logue of stars made by Hipparchus , calls it ' labor itiam Deo impro- bus'- an enterprise audacious even for a ...
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... mean that there should . He meant to be a French talker — light , glancing , sparkling ; and he was so . Upon this ... means of exciting Mr. Coleridge to talk , by the provocation of shallowness . But he fought imparibus armis against ...
... mean that there should . He meant to be a French talker — light , glancing , sparkling ; and he was so . Upon this ... means of exciting Mr. Coleridge to talk , by the provocation of shallowness . But he fought imparibus armis against ...
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Página 344 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride ; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side: By our own spirits are we deified : We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
Página 230 - 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 230 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth...
Página 356 - 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 270 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed 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.
Página 124 - There need not schools, nor the Professor's chair, Though these be good, true wisdom to impart; He, who has not enough for these to spare Of time, or gold, may yet amend his heart, And teach his soul, by brooks and rivers fair: Nature is always wise in every part.
Página 173 - This sentiment he now so utterly condemned, that, on the contrary, he told me, as his own peculiar opinion, that the act of praying was the very highest energy of which the human heart was capable, praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties ; and the great mass of worldly men and of learned men, he pronounced absolutely incapable of prayer.
Página 359 - 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 159 - Coleridge said, on another occasion, that, before meeting a fable in which to embody his ideas, he had meditated a poem on delirium, confounding its own dream-scenery with external things, and connected with the imagery of high latitudes.