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Page xiii
Why did Mr. Coleridge act thus , subjecting himself , as he might well have
anticipated , aware as he was of the hostile spirit against his person and
principles , that existed in many quarters , to suspicion from the illiberal , and
contumelinus ...
Why did Mr. Coleridge act thus , subjecting himself , as he might well have
anticipated , aware as he was of the hostile spirit against his person and
principles , that existed in many quarters , to suspicion from the illiberal , and
contumelinus ...
Page xix
... or that individual . The incautious way in which he acted upon this impulse was
calculated to bring him under suspicion with those to whose minds any such
feeling was alien and inconceivable . Yet no unprejudiced person , who reviews
my ...
... or that individual . The incautious way in which he acted upon this impulse was
calculated to bring him under suspicion with those to whose minds any such
feeling was alien and inconceivable . Yet no unprejudiced person , who reviews
my ...
Page xxxv
... I mean that men of “ peculiar intellectual conformation , " who have peculiar
powers of intellect , are very often peculiar in the rest of their constitution , to such
a degree that points in their conduct , which , in persons of ordinary faculties and
...
... I mean that men of “ peculiar intellectual conformation , " who have peculiar
powers of intellect , are very often peculiar in the rest of their constitution , to such
a degree that points in their conduct , which , in persons of ordinary faculties and
...
Page xxxix
Many of his poems , in which persons are described in ecstatic language , were
... and even so has Coleridge at times been represented by persons , who ,
judging partially and superficially , conceived him to be wanting in depth of heart
and ...
Many of his poems , in which persons are described in ecstatic language , were
... and even so has Coleridge at times been represented by persons , who ,
judging partially and superficially , conceived him to be wanting in depth of heart
and ...
Page xl
Had there been this tenuity and shallowness in his spirit , he could never have
made that sort of impression as an author , which many thoughtful persons have
received from his works , much less as a man have inspired such deep love and
...
Had there been this tenuity and shallowness in his spirit , he could never have
made that sort of impression as an author , which many thoughtful persons have
received from his works , much less as a man have inspired such deep love and
...
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Page 197 - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense.
Page 151 - 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.
Page 372 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement...
Page 372 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
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Page 362 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 362 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it Struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Page 399 - Had climbed with vigorous steps ; which had impressed So many incidents upon his mind Of hardship, skill or courage, joy or fear; Which like a book preserved the memory Of the dumb animals, whom he had saved, Had fed or sheltered, linking to such acts...
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| Title | The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 3 The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, William Greenough Thayer Shedd |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Editors | William Greenough Thayer Shedd, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge |
| Publisher | Harper & brothers, 1853 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 8 Feb 2007 |
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