 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...of what I needs must feel. But lo be etill and patient all I can ; And haply by abstnise research ta steal. From my own nature, all the natural man : This...was my sole resource, my only plan ; Till that which raits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." Such were, doubtless,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 pages
...Imagination. 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 soul resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole. And now is almost grown... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1880 - 512 pages
...Imagination. 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...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream ! I turn from you, and listen... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - Romanticism - 1990 - 318 pages
...paralysis ("and still I gaze — and with how blank an eye" [30]) becomes a function of psychic infection: "that which suits a part infects the whole, / And now is almost grown the habit of my soul" (92-93; italics mine). 8. So too, at times, even Coleridge: "all must have observed in common life,... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 396 pages
...Coleridge's poetry: 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...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. (PW, i, p. 367, lines 87-93) What is it that the speaker can't help feeling but mustn't think about?... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 268 pages
...Sorrow. For not to think of what I needs must feel, 265 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 wisest Plan! And that, which suits a part, infects the whole, 270 And now is almost grown the temper... | |
 | Mark Edmundson - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 260 pages
...literary pleasure. So Coleridge, in "Dejection," speaks of being taken over by his analytic temper: "Till that which suits a part infects the whole,/ And now is almost grown the habit of my soul" (92-3). To this point, I think, much of academic literary criticism has now come. But it need not stay... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...Imagination. 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 — 90 This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...REJOINDER TO A CRITIC You may be right: "How can I dare to feel?" May be the only question I can pose, "And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man" My sole resource. And I do not suppose That others may not have a better plan. And yet I'll quote again,... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - English poetry - 1999 - 164 pages
...reappears: For not to think of what I needs must feel, Mui to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This w as my sole resource, my onh plan: Till that which snits a part infests the whole, And now is almost... | |
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My shaping spirit of Imagination. 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... 
