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" If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream,' he wrote, 'and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Ay, and what then? "
The Limits of Dream: A Scientific Exploration of the Mind / Brain Interface - Page 98
by J. F. Pagel - 2010 - 250 pages
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Anima Poetae: From the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Quotations, English - 1895 - 458 pages
...the farthest in the world from being credulous," or "as far from believing such things as any man." IF a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and...if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke — Aye ! and what then ? THE more exquisite and delicate a flower of joy, the tenderer must be the...
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Anima Poetę from the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Quotations, English - 1895 - 300 pages
...from being credulous," or " as far from believing such things as any man." If a man could pass throngh Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to...flower in his hand when he awoke — Ay! and what then ? The more exquisite and delicate a flower of joy, the tenderer must be the hand that plucks it. Floods...
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The Book of the Future Life

Pauline W. Roose - 1900 - 294 pages
...Dr. Johnson remarked, is so near to the heart of man. " If," says Coleridge (in " Anima Poetae "), " a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and...if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke ? Aye ! and what then ? " The saying itself is a flower of Paradise, with, instead of dew, the tears...
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The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination

John Livingston Lowes - Imagination - 1927 - 694 pages
...as they come to light in 'The Ancient Mariner.' And now we have yet stranger paths to trace. BOOK IV If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and...flower in his hand when he awoke — Ay ! and what then ? COLERIDGE, Anima Poeta Cotal son to, M quasi tutta cessa mia visione, ed ancor mi distilla nel cor...
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The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination

John Livingston Lowes - Imagination - 1927 - 698 pages
...they come to light in 'The Ancient Mariner.' And now we have yet stranger paths to trace. / BOOK IV If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and...pledge that his soul had really been there, and if hejound that flower in his hand when he awoke — Ay ! and what then ? COLERIDGE, minima Pott* Cotal...
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Philosophy and the Art of Writing: Studies in Philosophical and Literary Style

Berel Lang - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1983 - 254 pages
...method of interpreting Scripture does not widely differ from the method of interpreting nature. Spinoza If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and...had really been there, and if he found that flower there when he awoke — Ay! and what then? Samuel Taylor Coleridge Philosophy and the Art of Writing...
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The Moral Picturesque: Studies in Hawthorne's Fiction

Darrel Abel - Didactic fiction, American - 1988 - 348 pages
...way back into the Puritan reality, and to furnish us the means of dreaming their dreams as welL IY If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and...if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke — Aye! and what then?— Coleridge. Notebooks The black glove and pink ribbon are apt to mislead...
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Gabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales

Literary Collections - 1993 - 433 pages
...from the Garden of Eden (Eastern Europe) From Nifla'ot ha-Tzaddikim (Piotrkow: 1911) Coleridge asked, "If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream,...Ay! — and what then?" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poetry and Prose, edited by Elisabeth Schneider, 2nded., 1971, p. 617). This tale answers...
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Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community

Lois Parkinson Zamora, Wendy B. Faris - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 598 pages
...magical realism toward allegory. In "The Flower of Coleridge," Borges cites Coleridge's statement: "If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream,...flower in his hand when he awoke — Ay! — and what then?"17 In Borges' reprise of Coleridge's vision, we hear a nostalgic sigh ("Ay!") for the proof ("that...
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Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep and Dreams

Alfred Alvarez - Fiction - 1996 - 324 pages
...burns. 'If a man could pass thro' Paradise in a Dream', Coleridge wrote in his notebooks in 1815, '& have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his Soul had really been there, & found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye! and what then?'67 That is what happened to him...
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