The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1854 |
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... soul , my very system compels me to defend not only the propriety , but the absolute necessity , of adopting it , if we really intend to render our fellow - creatures better or wiser . But it is with dullness as with obscurity . It may ...
... soul , my very system compels me to defend not only the propriety , but the absolute necessity , of adopting it , if we really intend to render our fellow - creatures better or wiser . But it is with dullness as with obscurity . It may ...
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... soul ; some living gauge and mete - wand of past and present genius . But alas ! my former studies would still have left a wrong bias ! If instead of perplexing my com- mon sense with the flights of Plato , and of stiffening over the ...
... soul ; some living gauge and mete - wand of past and present genius . But alas ! my former studies would still have left a wrong bias ! If instead of perplexing my com- mon sense with the flights of Plato , and of stiffening over the ...
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... soul , I mean ) flat and exhausted , incapable of attending to her own con- cerns , and unfitted for the conversation of more rational guests . I know you will not suspect me of fostering so idle a hope , as that of obtaining acquittal ...
... soul , I mean ) flat and exhausted , incapable of attending to her own con- cerns , and unfitted for the conversation of more rational guests . I know you will not suspect me of fostering so idle a hope , as that of obtaining acquittal ...
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... soul . Where not , I must take counsel for my soul , though half or the whole world should be scandalized thereby . " + Luther felt and preached and wrote and acted , as beseemed a Luther to feel and utter and act . The truths , which ...
... soul . Where not , I must take counsel for my soul , though half or the whole world should be scandalized thereby . " + Luther felt and preached and wrote and acted , as beseemed a Luther to feel and utter and act . The truths , which ...
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... soul Only the nations shall be great and free ! WORDSWORTH . ESSAY X. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and com- monwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter ...
... soul Only the nations shall be great and free ! WORDSWORTH . ESSAY X. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and com- monwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter ...
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Page 408 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 69 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 205 - AND it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, " My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Page 77 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 411 - Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience ; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow : Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.
Page 204 - Did both find helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where ! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Page 23 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 458 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
Page 49 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 506 - Straight forward goes The lightning's path, and straight the fearful path Of the cannon-ball. Direct it flies and rapid, Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches. My son ! the road, the human being travels, That, on which BLESSING comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn-field and the hill of vines, Honouring the holy bounds of property ! And thus secure, though late, leads to its end.