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... known a number of remarkable persons in the course of his life , some of them of great literary celebrity , it had occurred to him that a series of sketches of these , from his own recollections and impressions of them , partly in their ...
... known a number of remarkable persons in the course of his life , some of them of great literary celebrity , it had occurred to him that a series of sketches of these , from his own recollections and impressions of them , partly in their ...
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... known to be of trivial pursuits , with slight habits of study , and strong book - mindedness , " naturally enough his college peers who should happen to be idlers would question his right to court solitude . They would demand a sight of ...
... known to be of trivial pursuits , with slight habits of study , and strong book - mindedness , " naturally enough his college peers who should happen to be idlers would question his right to court solitude . They would demand a sight of ...
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... known habits of study as his reason for secluding himself , and for declining the ordinary amusements and wine parties , will meet with neither molest- ation nor contempt.1 For my part , though neither giving nor accepting invitations ...
... known habits of study as his reason for secluding himself , and for declining the ordinary amusements and wine parties , will meet with neither molest- ation nor contempt.1 For my part , though neither giving nor accepting invitations ...
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... known by the name of University College , one of twenty - five such establishments in Oxford , had regularly corrected it into " gates of the University , " & c . Here is the first misconcep- tion of all strangers . And this feature of ...
... known by the name of University College , one of twenty - five such establishments in Oxford , had regularly corrected it into " gates of the University , " & c . Here is the first misconcep- tion of all strangers . And this feature of ...
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... or to some existing and known reality ? Would they have England suppose that they are here comparing the actual Oxford with some possible hypothetic or imaginable Oxford , -with some ideal case , that is to say , about which great.
... or to some existing and known reality ? Would they have England suppose that they are here comparing the actual Oxford with some possible hypothetic or imaginable Oxford , -with some ideal case , that is to say , about which great.
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Page 258 - Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 264 - All shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice in games Confederate, imitative of the chase" And woodland pleasures, - the resounding horn, The pack loud chiming, and the hunted hare.
Page 210 - But how can He expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all...
Page 206 - 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 237 - She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view...
Page 442 - And take delight in its activity; Even so this happy Creature of herself Is all-sufficient; solitude to her Is blithe society, who fills the air With gladness and involuntary songs.
Page 295 - The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Page 139 - I were to linger upon this, the greatest event in the unfolding of my own mind. Let me say in one word, that, at a period when neither the one nor the other writer was valued by the public — both having a long warfare to accomplish of contumely and ridicule, before they could rise into their present estimation — I found in these poems " the ray of a new morning," and an absolute revelation of untrodden worlds, teeming with power and beauty, as yet unsuspected amongst men.
Page 452 - When Mrs. Siddons came into the room, there happened to be no chair ready for her, which he observing, said with a smile, ' Madam, you who so often occasion a want of seats to other people, will the more easily excuse the want of one yourself.
Page 150 - I recognized my object. This was Coleridge. I examined him steadfastly for a minute or more ; and it struck me that he saw neither myself nor any other object in the street.