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" Well were it for me, perhaps, had I never relapsed into the same mental disease, if I had continued to pluck the flower and reap the harvest from the cultivated surface. instead of delving in the unwholesome quicksilver mines of metaphysic depths. "
Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions - Page 17
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 296 pages
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 10

1834 - 784 pages
...a diseased mind ; and expresses a wish, that, having been once redeemed from their enchantment, he had " continued to pluck the flower and reap the harvest...unwholesome quicksilver mines of metaphysic depths. If, in after times," he proceeds, " I have sought a refuge from bodily pain and mismanaged sensihility...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary, Volume 19

Great Britain - 1835 - 592 pages
...as the Sonnets, &c., of Mr. Bowles. Well were it for me, perhaps, had I never relapsed into the same mental disease, if I had continued to pluck the flower...abstruse researches, which exercised the strength and subtilty of the understanding, without awakening the feelings of the heart, still there was a long...
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The Annual biography and obituary, Volume 19

1835 - 494 pages
...as the Sonnets, &c., of Mr. Bowles. Well were it for me, perhaps, had I never relapsed into the same mental disease, if I had continued to pluck the flower...bodily pain and mismanaged sensibility in abstruse re-: searches, which exercised the strength and subtilty of the understanding, without awakening the...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 19

Great Britain - 1835 - 544 pages
...the Sonnets, &c., of Mr. Bowles. Well vsere it for me, perhaps, had I never relapsed into the same mental disease, if I had continued to pluck the flower...of delving in the unwholesome quicksilver mines of metapbysic depths. But if, in after time, I have sought a refuge from bodily pain and mismanaged sensibility...
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With a Life of ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1836 - 496 pages
...sonnets, &c. of Mr. Bowles. Well were it for me, perhaps, had 1 never relapsed into the same mentai disease; if I had continued to pluck the flower and...cultivated surface, instead of delving in the unwholesome quicksand mines of metaphysic depths. But if in after time I have sought a refuge from bodily pain...
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The poetical and dramatic works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1838 - 492 pages
...sonnets, &c. of Mr. Bowles. Well were it for me, perhaps, had I never relapsed into the same mentai disease ; if I had continued to pluck the flower and...cultivated surface, instead of delving in the unwholesome quicksand mines of metaphysic depth*. But if in after time I have sought a refuge from bodily pain...
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...as the sonnets, &c. of Mr. Bowles ! Well were it for me, perhaps, had I never relapsed into the same oft And many a time I 've told thee, Jupiter, That...subdues no mysteries ; Mole-eyed, thoti mayest but burr meUiphysic depths. But if, in after time, I have nought a refuge from bodily pain and mismanaged sensibility,...
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Rambles and Reveries

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Italy - 1841 - 564 pages
...feeling. " Well were it for me perhaps," he remarks in the Biographia, "had I never relapsed into the same mental disease ; if I had continued to pluck the flower...unwholesome quicksilver mines of metaphysic depths." That he formed as just an estimate of the superficial nature of political labor, is evident from the...
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Rambles and Reveries

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - American literature - 1841 - 988 pages
..." Well were it for me perhaps," he remarks in the Biographia, " had I never relapsed into the same mental disease ; if I had continued to pluck the flower...unwholesome quicksilver mines of metaphysic depths." That he formed as just an estimate of the superficial nature of political labor, is evident from the...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 7

1841 - 908 pages
..."Well were it for me, perhaps," he remarks in the Biographia, " had I never relapsed into the same mental disease ; if I had continued to pluck the flower...instead of delving in the unwholesome quicksilver 178 Coleridge. 179 ! of metaphysic depths." That he formed as jus! an estimate of the superficial nature...
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