The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological OpinionsHarper & Brothers, 1853 |
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... translated from Kant some years ago , and which cost me a good deal of search , before I ascertained that it was not my own . My Father says himself , in the ninth chapter of this work , " I have not indeed ( eheu ! res angusta domi ...
... translated from Kant some years ago , and which cost me a good deal of search , before I ascertained that it was not my own . My Father says himself , in the ninth chapter of this work , " I have not indeed ( eheu ! res angusta domi ...
Page xvii
... translating and appropriating the Ger- man's ? " There are some who have eyes to see , and microscopically too , but only in certain directions . To those whose vision is more catholic I address the plain question , Did not my Father ...
... translating and appropriating the Ger- man's ? " There are some who have eyes to see , and microscopically too , but only in certain directions . To those whose vision is more catholic I address the plain question , Did not my Father ...
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... translate the following observations from a contemporary writer of the Continent , let me be permitted to premise , that I might have transcribed the substance from memoranda of my own , which were written many years before his pamphlet ...
... translate the following observations from a contemporary writer of the Continent , let me be permitted to premise , that I might have transcribed the substance from memoranda of my own , which were written many years before his pamphlet ...
Page xxix
... translated ; which Cole- ridge never said . " The following observations " very obviously extend to the words " William Law , " two pages beyond the 49 lines ; of the whole it is truly said , that it is partly translated , about one ...
... translated ; which Cole- ridge never said . " The following observations " very obviously extend to the words " William Law , " two pages beyond the 49 lines ; of the whole it is truly said , that it is partly translated , about one ...
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... translated from Schiller , a poet whose evinced themselves in his early boyhood , and which had been only modified , and indirectly shaped and developed by the German school . " " That in the B. L. when developing his own scheme of ...
... translated from Schiller , a poet whose evinced themselves in his early boyhood , and which had been only modified , and indirectly shaped and developed by the German school . " " That in the B. L. when developing his own scheme of ...
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Page 497 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 151 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 497 - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise...
Page 166 - Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew ? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead ? No, neither he, nor his compeers by night Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
Page 361 - The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Page 362 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 363 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself, as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 197 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 454 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched. And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none. Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Page 404 - Accordingly, such a language, arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings, is a more permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets...