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And yet you may fall in with a still worse set than even these , with churls that in
all companies and without stop or stay , will condemn and pull to pieces a work
which they have never read . But this sinks below the baseness of an informer ,
yea ...
And yet you may fall in with a still worse set than even these , with churls that in
all companies and without stop or stay , will condemn and pull to pieces a work
which they have never read . But this sinks below the baseness of an informer ,
yea ...
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This fault I am now endeavoring to correct ; though I can never so far sacrifice my
judgment to the desire of being immediately popular , as to cast my sentences in
the French moulds , or affect a style which an ancient critic would have deemed ...
This fault I am now endeavoring to correct ; though I can never so far sacrifice my
judgment to the desire of being immediately popular , as to cast my sentences in
the French moulds , or affect a style which an ancient critic would have deemed ...
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Yet I dare not flatter myself , that any endeavors of mine , compatible with the duty
I owe to truth and the hope of permanent utility , will render The Friend agreeable
to the majority of what is called the reading public . I never expected it .
Yet I dare not flatter myself , that any endeavors of mine , compatible with the duty
I owe to truth and the hope of permanent utility , will render The Friend agreeable
to the majority of what is called the reading public . I never expected it .
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... but not so often have heard his name used , even by those who have never
read his writings , as a proverbial expression for learned arrogance . But when a
novel and doubtful hypothesis of his own formation was the citadel to be
defended ...
... but not so often have heard his name used , even by those who have never
read his writings , as a proverbial expression for learned arrogance . But when a
novel and doubtful hypothesis of his own formation was the citadel to be
defended ...
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A knowledge of the truth is equal to the task both of discerning and of confuting
all false assertions and erroneous arguments , though never before met with , if
only they may freely be brought forward . I HAVE said , that my very system ...
A knowledge of the truth is equal to the task both of discerning and of confuting
all false assertions and erroneous arguments , though never before met with , if
only they may freely be brought forward . I HAVE said , that my very system ...
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Page 460 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 375 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Page 461 - 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 416 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief...
Page 415 - To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
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Page 413 - 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 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 460 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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| Title | The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2 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 | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Jul 2007 |
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