Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey

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Wiley and Putnam, 1848 - 378 páginas
 

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Página 325 - 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 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 - 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 293 - ... 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.
Página 103 - Leoni's younger brother Went likewise, and when he returned to Spain, He told Leoni, that the poor mad youth, Soon after they arrived in that new world, In spite of his dissuasion, seized a boat, And all alone, set sail by silent moonlight Up a great river, great as any sea, And ne'er was heard of more : but 'tis supposed,' He lived and died among the savage men.
Página 220 - And fashions in the depths — the spirit's ladder, That from this gross and visible world of dust, Even to the starry world, with thousand rounds, Builds itself up ; on which the unseen powers Move up and down on heavenly ministries — The circles in the circles, that approach • The central sun with ever-narrowing orbit — These see the glance alone, the unsealed eye, Of Jupiter's glad children born in lustre.
Página 141 - ... trying the experiment of human perfectibility on the banks of the Susquehannah ; where our little society, in its second generation, was to have combined the innocence of the patriarchal age with the knowledge and genuine refinements of European culture...
Página 355 - O, lift one thought in prayer for STC; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death! Mercy for praise—to be forgiven for fame He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same!

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