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" ... if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. "
Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - Page 141
1837
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Cathcart's Literary Reader: A Manual of English Literature : Being Typical ...

George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines, — if that indeed can...without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen,...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...•enees, during which time he has the most vivid confidence that he could not have composed leas than from two to three hundred lines, if that indeed can be...expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort On awaking he appeared to himself to Ьате a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his...
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English Men of Letters, Volume 10

John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 620 pages
...senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines — if that indeed can...before him as things, with a parallel production of the corresponding expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effect. On awaking he appeared...
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Principles of Mental Physiology, with Their Applications to the Training and ...

William Benjamin Carpenter - Human information processing - 1894 - 824 pages
...two to three hundred lines, which he had nothing to do but to write down, "the images rising up ai' things, with a parallel production of the correspondent...without any sensation or consciousness of effort." The whole of this singular fragment, as it stands, consisting of fifty-four lines, wa• written as...
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Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems

Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 268 pages
...during which time he has the 10 most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be...without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his is pen,...
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Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep and Dreams

Alfred Alvarez - Fiction - 1996 - 324 pages
...during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be...expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.63 'Kubla Khan' is all images, all 'things' that Coleridge had absorbed in the course of his...
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Genius: The Natural History of Creativity

H. J. Eysenck - Business & Economics - 1995 - 360 pages
...which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two or three hundred lines; if that indeed can be called...things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expression, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awaking he appeared to himself to...
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Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law

Leo Katz - Business & Economics - 1996 - 330 pages
...during which time he ha[d] the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be...without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awakening he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen,...
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Imprints & Re-visions: The Making of the Literary Text, 1759-1818

Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - Authors and printing - 1996 - 258 pages
...the author since to the images he sees in his dream, he gets the words and lines of the poem, "... if that indeed can be called composition in which...without any sensation or consciousness of effort" (163, emphasis added). So in the dream he is given the images directly as things, and he is given the...
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De Quincey's Romanticism: Canonical Minority and the Forms of Transmission

Margaret Russett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 318 pages
...during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be...without any sensation or consciousness of effort. (OW295-o.6) De Quincey's images further attenuate this consciousness of labor, for the pleasure-domes...
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