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Page xiv
... in the British Magazine of Jan- uary , 1835 , pp . 20 , 21 . + See p . 250. Of the use made by the writer in Bl . of this passage I shall have to speak again further on . after doing honor to Kant and justice to Fichte , xiv INTRODUCTION .
... in the British Magazine of Jan- uary , 1835 , pp . 20 , 21 . + See p . 250. Of the use made by the writer in Bl . of this passage I shall have to speak again further on . after doing honor to Kant and justice to Fichte , xiv INTRODUCTION .
Page xv
... speaking , become the property of the borrower , so as to cease to be that of the original possessor ; the new form in which he invests it , or the fresh matter which he engrafts upon it , will be his , but the debt to him who has ...
... speaking , become the property of the borrower , so as to cease to be that of the original possessor ; the new form in which he invests it , or the fresh matter which he engrafts upon it , will be his , but the debt to him who has ...
Page xx
... speak of his share in the promulgation of truth and awakening of reflection , and of the world's unthankfulness . This he did , rather in self - defence , when he was accused of neglecting to employ or of misemploying his natural gifts ...
... speak of his share in the promulgation of truth and awakening of reflection , and of the world's unthankfulness . This he did , rather in self - defence , when he was accused of neglecting to employ or of misemploying his natural gifts ...
Page xxii
... Speaking of " The Friend " he observes , " Throughout these Essays the want of illus- trative examples and varied exposition is the main defect , and was occasioned by the haunting dread of being tedious . ' " " The Biographia Literaria ...
... Speaking of " The Friend " he observes , " Throughout these Essays the want of illus- trative examples and varied exposition is the main defect , and was occasioned by the haunting dread of being tedious . ' " " The Biographia Literaria ...
Page xli
... speaking of the gifts assigned him by heaven , he sadly exclaims , " and from my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls like hour - glass sand ! " Some of these precious pearls he let fall , not from wanting a deep sense of ...
... speaking of the gifts assigned him by heaven , he sadly exclaims , " and from my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls like hour - glass sand ! " Some of these precious pearls he let fall , not from wanting a deep sense of ...
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Page 199 - 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 385 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 364 - The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space, while it is blended with, and modified by, that empirical phenomenon of the will which we express by the word choice. But equally with the ordinary memory the fancy must receive all its materials ready made from the law of association.
Page 379 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 363 - The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Page 470 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 481 - Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal Mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; Thou, over whom thy immortality Broods like the day, a master o'er a slave, A Presence which is not to be put by...
Page 199 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.