The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 3Harper & brothers, 1853 |
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... accounting for it is from his practice of keeping note - books or journals of his thoughts , filled with observations and brief dissertations on such matters as happened to strike him , with a sprinkling now and INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... accounting for it is from his practice of keeping note - books or journals of his thoughts , filled with observations and brief dissertations on such matters as happened to strike him , with a sprinkling now and INTRODUCTION . xiii.
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... observations from a contemporary writer of the continent , " without specifying the particular work from which it was taken , or even the writer's name . So indeed it may appear on an examination undertaken ostensibly for the love of ...
... observations from a contemporary writer of the continent , " without specifying the particular work from which it was taken , or even the writer's name . So indeed it may appear on an examination undertaken ostensibly for the love of ...
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... presently ; his own full be- lief of what he asserted , I , of course , do not make matter of ques- tion or debate . First , however , reverting for a moment to the simile of the " wasps , " I beg to observe , that xxiv INTRODUCTION .
... presently ; his own full be- lief of what he asserted , I , of course , do not make matter of ques- tion or debate . First , however , reverting for a moment to the simile of the " wasps , " I beg to observe , that xxiv INTRODUCTION .
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... observe , that even if such insects might suck the juice of flowers if they would , mechanically might ( though their organs are not adapted for the purpose like those of bees ) , yet it is certain that instinctively they never do . In ...
... observe , that even if such insects might suck the juice of flowers if they would , mechanically might ( though their organs are not adapted for the purpose like those of bees ) , yet it is certain that instinctively they never do . In ...
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... observations on religious philosophy cited by Mr. Coleridge he declares himself to have anticipated in writing . A few sentences with which he prefaces the extract in the ninth chapter , which have been strongly animadverted upon , I ...
... observations on religious philosophy cited by Mr. Coleridge he declares himself to have anticipated in writing . A few sentences with which he prefaces the extract in the ninth chapter , which have been strongly animadverted upon , I ...
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Page 197 - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense.
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 372 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement...
Page 372 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Page 491 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 497 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 364 - I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart.
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 362 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it Struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Page 399 - Had climbed with vigorous steps ; which had impressed So many incidents upon his mind Of hardship, skill or courage, joy or fear; Which like a book preserved the memory Of the dumb animals, whom he had saved, Had fed or sheltered, linking to such acts...