...lake or sea; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world." John Sterling thus describes his first interview with Coleridge: "I was in his company about three...

...or sea ; terribly deficient, in definite goal or aim, nay, often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...you felt logically lost, swamped near to drowning hi this tide of ingenious vocables, spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world.' — (Life...

...sea, terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay, often in logical intelligibility ; what were you to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing...near to drowning, in this tide of ingenious vocables, boundless as if to submerge the world." Happily, as ever with Coleridge, there is weighty evidence...

...regurgitations like a lake or sea; terribly deficient in goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world. i To sit as a passive bucket and be pumped into, whether you consent or not, can in the long run be...

...regurgitationirllke fl In.Vp"Sr spa^Tpm'hly deficient in goal or nay often in logical intelligibility; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately refus- • ing to appear from it. So that, most times, you felt logically lost; swamped near to drowning...

...Poetry is 'swamped near to drowning,' as Carlyle said of the listener to Coleridge's talk, 'in [a] tide of ingenious vocables, spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world.' The shaping spirit of imagination is floundering in the fog, intent on pure abstractions, instead of...

...lake or sea; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world." z Destiny has so eventuated that the unfortunate graduate defends nothing, because he has never been...

...regurgitations like a lake or sea; terribly deficient in goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...logically lost; swamped near to drowning in this tide of in^aes; and ever -. ..^66, where it was uncer_-nch, or whether any. *o, v.as distinguished, like himself,...

...river, but spreading everywhither in extricable currents and régurgitations like a lake or sea ... so that, most times you felt logically lost; swamped...spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world." Sir William Hamilton was more sympathetic: "For the full and rapid torrent of his eloquence of discourse...

...river, but spreading everywhither in inextricable currents and regurgitations like a lake or sea . . . most times, you felt logically lost; swamped near...spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world' (77 11.4o9). But an alternative, even less flattering metaphor, is that of a machine out of control:...