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Page xxvii
... that the work he should produce would “ appear to be the offspring of his own
spirit by better tests than the mere reference to dates : ” and although his actual
performance fell very far short of what he was ever expecting to perform , yet
surely ...
... that the work he should produce would “ appear to be the offspring of his own
spirit by better tests than the mere reference to dates : ” and although his actual
performance fell very far short of what he was ever expecting to perform , yet
surely ...
Page xxxi
We Christians know , that it was not credulity , but want of faith and of a spirit
quicker to discern truth and goodness than to suspect imposture and evil , by
which they of the circumcision were most painfully characterized . * * When I had
written ...
We Christians know , that it was not credulity , but want of faith and of a spirit
quicker to discern truth and goodness than to suspect imposture and evil , by
which they of the circumcision were most painfully characterized . * * When I had
written ...
Page xlii
The spirit evidenced in this proced* I believe that Bayle ' s article caused a dead
silence on the subject of the great Reformer ' s personal “ carnality ” for ages . Of
late years it has been revived , and there is a faint attempt to bring up some of ...
The spirit evidenced in this proced* I believe that Bayle ' s article caused a dead
silence on the subject of the great Reformer ' s personal “ carnality ” for ages . Of
late years it has been revived , and there is a faint attempt to bring up some of ...
Page xliii
ure , —that " ancient spirit is not dead ; " religious writers , even at the present day
, are far too prone to discredit a man's opinions at second - hand by tracing them
to some averred evil source in his character , or perverting influence in the ...
ure , —that " ancient spirit is not dead ; " religious writers , even at the present day
, are far too prone to discredit a man's opinions at second - hand by tracing them
to some averred evil source in his character , or perverting influence in the ...
Page xlix
... been fixed by an outward revelation , —the commentary of tradition upon
Scripture , —and that we are not to look upon the reason and conscience of man ,
interpreted by the understanding , as the everlasting organ of the Spirit of Truth ?
... been fixed by an outward revelation , —the commentary of tradition upon
Scripture , —and that we are not to look upon the reason and conscience of man ,
interpreted by the understanding , as the everlasting organ of the Spirit of Truth ?
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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.
Page 491 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 497 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 364 - I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart.
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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