 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1888 - 330 pages
...: For hope grew round me, like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care...visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, Jly shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1888 - 328 pages
...vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Xor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But oh ! each visitntion Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1889 - 476 pages
...his own soul ; burying himself in the profoundest abstractions from life and human sensibilities. " For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...And haply by abstruse research, to steal, From my oum nature, all the natural man; This was my sole resource, my only plan ; Till that, which suits a... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1889 - 552 pages
...happiness ; For Hope grew round me, like the twining vine, And fruits and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; But O, each visitation Suspends what Nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination : For... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1890 - 976 pages
...happiness. For hope grew round me like the twining vine : And fruits and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth, Nor care I that they roi) me of my mirth ; But oh ! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1890 - 412 pages
...so good English as reccus caspcs is good Latin. 2 Shaping, $c.] Compare Dejection : an Ode : — " What Nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination." 3 Morning's feverous doze.'] Compare The Pains of Slrtp. Is this l piled earth our being's passless... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1891 - 320 pages
...happiness; For hope grew round me, like the twining vine, And fruits and foliage not my own seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth, Nor care...me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination." And then follow the lines which De Quincey has quoted, which are imperfect and less emphatic without... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1891 - 320 pages
...; For hope grew round me, like the twining vine. And fruits and foliage not my own seemed mine. Hut now afflictions bow me down to earth, Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; Hut oh ! each visitation Suspends what Nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination."... | |
 | American fiction - 1923 - 574 pages
...: For hope grew round me, like the twining vine. And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care...me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination." These are among the saddest and humblest words ever written. They are also profoundly true. Coleridge... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 886 pages
...80 For hope grew round me, like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care...me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. [The Sixth and Seventh Stanzas omitted.] 0 wherefore did I let it haunt my mind This dark distressful... | |
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There was a time when, though my path was rough, This joy within me dallied with distress, And all misfortunes were but as the stuff Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness : For hope grew round me, like the twining vine. 
