 I expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings," says Coleridge, in the preface to his poems ; " and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has soothed my afflictions...  A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica - Page 497by Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill - 1851 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd - English poetry - 1797 - 310 pages
...and I consider myself as having been amply repayed without either. Poetry has been to me its own " exceeding great reward:" it has soothed my afflictions,...multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1803 - 228 pages
...and I consider myself as having been amply repayed without either. Poetry has been to me its own " exceeding great reward :" it has soothed my afflictions, it has multiplied and refined niy enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...then are we grateful to the illustrious dead. Coleridge himself said, ' Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward. It has soothed my afflictions...multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pages
...writings; and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own " exceeding great reward :" it has soothed my afflictions...multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...writings and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own . alignani solitude: and it ha« given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...the conclusion of his Preface, of poetry itself. The study of his " poetry has been to me its own ' exceeding great reward :' it has soothed my afflictions...multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me (or at least strengthened in me) the habit of wishing to discover- the... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1882 - 856 pages
...Review," No. 55. I consider myself as being amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward ; it has soothed my afflictions,...multiplied and refined my enjoyments, it has endeared solitude, and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 590 pages
...; and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own ' exceeding great reward :' it has soothed my afflictions...multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 370 pages
...POETRY OF LIFE BY SARAH STICKNEY, AUTHOR OF "PICTURES OF PRIVATE LIFE.' "Poetry has been to me Its own 'exceeding great reward.' It has soothed my afflictions,...multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful, in all... | |
| |
