The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1853 |
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... light of the Gospel into the very superstitions which they were commissioned to disperse , and thus paganized Christianity in order to christen Paganism . At this very hour Europe groans and bleeds in con- sequence . So much in proof ...
... light of the Gospel into the very superstitions which they were commissioned to disperse , and thus paganized Christianity in order to christen Paganism . At this very hour Europe groans and bleeds in con- sequence . So much in proof ...
Page 62
... light , unthink- ing , sensual , and profligate , of the European nations , —a nation , the very phrases of whose language are so composed , that they can scarcely speak without lying ! -No ! Let us not deceive ourselves . Like the man ...
... light , unthink- ing , sensual , and profligate , of the European nations , —a nation , the very phrases of whose language are so composed , that they can scarcely speak without lying ! -No ! Let us not deceive ourselves . Like the man ...
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... light faith that can fly off at any breath of temptation ; the cleaner will the true grain be stored up in the granary of the Lord , " -- we are entitled to say with Tertullian : * and to exclaim with 64 THE FRIEND .
... light faith that can fly off at any breath of temptation ; the cleaner will the true grain be stored up in the granary of the Lord , " -- we are entitled to say with Tertullian : * and to exclaim with 64 THE FRIEND .
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... light and de- * Avolent , quantum volent , paleæ leves fidei quocunque afflatu tentationum ! eo purior massa frumenti in horrea Domini reponetur . De Præscript . ad- vers . Hæretic . I. c . 3.-Ed. ↑ Aergerniss hin , Aergerniss her ...
... light and de- * Avolent , quantum volent , paleæ leves fidei quocunque afflatu tentationum ! eo purior massa frumenti in horrea Domini reponetur . De Præscript . ad- vers . Hæretic . I. c . 3.-Ed. ↑ Aergerniss hin , Aergerniss her ...
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... light to all and of all times , who thank Heaven for the gracious dawn , and expect the noon - day ; who welcome the first gleams of spring , and sow their fields in confi- dent faith of the ripening summer and the rewarding harvest ...
... light to all and of all times , who thank Heaven for the gracious dawn , and expect the noon - day ; who welcome the first gleams of spring , and sow their fields in confi- dent faith of the ripening summer and the rewarding harvest ...
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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?
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 494 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
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!