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... while upon earth , had the " finite understanding ” of a man ; that he “ stooped
to the meanness of our faculties ; ” and indeed it is evident from the language of
the Evangelists , that they supposed Him to arrive at the knowledge of or . dinary
...
... while upon earth , had the " finite understanding ” of a man ; that he “ stooped
to the meanness of our faculties ; ” and indeed it is evident from the language of
the Evangelists , that they supposed Him to arrive at the knowledge of or . dinary
...
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Our ideas on the supersensual and spiritual are without the sphere of the
understanding , the forms of which are adapted to a world of sense , though it is
by the mediation of the understanding alone , by its " hieroglyphic emblems , ”
that we ...
Our ideas on the supersensual and spiritual are without the sphere of the
understanding , the forms of which are adapted to a world of sense , though it is
by the mediation of the understanding alone , by its " hieroglyphic emblems , ”
that we ...
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... and their notions of poetry , from the writings of Pope and his followers ; or to
speak more generally , in that school of French poetry , condensed and
invigorated by English understanding , which had predominated from the last
century .
... and their notions of poetry , from the writings of Pope and his followers ; or to
speak more generally , in that school of French poetry , condensed and
invigorated by English understanding , which had predominated from the last
century .
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At least the difference which must blend with and balance the likeness , in order
to constitute a just imitation , existing here merely in caricature , detracts from the
libeller's heart , without adding an iota to the credit of his understanding .
At least the difference which must blend with and balance the likeness , in order
to constitute a just imitation , existing here merely in caricature , detracts from the
libeller's heart , without adding an iota to the credit of his understanding .
Page 85
... the last opinion , judgment , or dictate of the understanding , —which last
opinion , judgment , or dictate of the understanding is necessarily determined by
the presentation of certain external objects to a man of such or such a
temperature .
... the last opinion , judgment , or dictate of the understanding , —which last
opinion , judgment , or dictate of the understanding is necessarily determined by
the presentation of certain external objects to a man of such or such a
temperature .
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Page 7 - 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 which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page clxxxix - I learned from him, that poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes.
Page 71 - ... the original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it the depth and height of the ideal world around forms, incidents, and situations, of which, for the common view, custom had bedimmed all the lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the dew drops.
Page 73 - You may conceive the difference in kind between the Fancy and the Imagination in this way, — that if the check of the senses and the reason were withdrawn, the first would become delirium, and the last mania. The Fancy brings together images which have no connection natural or moral, but are yoked together by the poet by means of some accidental coincidence...
Page 73 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Page 67 - Descriptive Sketches; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced.
Page 23 - Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough : — We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff! " I, too, will have my kings that take From me the sign of life and death : Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath.
Page 40 - ... with the name of reading. Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving phantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the...
Page 15 - ... poets sacrificed the passion, and passionate flow of poetry, to the subtleties of intellect and to the starts of wit; the moderns to the glare and 'glitter of a perpetual yet broken and heterogeneous imagery, or rather to an amphibious something, made up, half of image and half of abstract* meaning. The one sacrificed the heart to the head, the other both heart and head to point and drapery.
Page 71 - Repeated meditations led me first to suspect, (and a more intimate analysis of the human faculties, their appropriate marks, functions, and effects matured my conjecture into full conviction,) that fancy and imagination were two distinct and widely different faculties, instead of being, according to the general belief, either two names with one meaning, or, at furthest, the lower and higher degree of one and the same power.
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| Title | Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1, Part 1 Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Editors | Henry Nelson Coleridge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | W. Pickering, 1847 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2006 |
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