 Thus all lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving. And shall man alone stoop? Shall his pursuits and desires, the reflections of his...  Silver-shell, Or, the Adventures of an Oyster - Page 148by Charles Williams - 1856 - 184 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 742 pages
...lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 364 pages
...lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1835 - 410 pages
...lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. AH things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...they appear the types of a grovelling nature; thus Coleridge regarded them. " Shall man," says he, " alone stoop ? shall his pursuits and desires, the...image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1839 - 386 pages
...lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 406 pages
...lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 824 pages
...low natures find their highest good ia semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, ami seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | Herman Hooker - Apologetics - 1850 - 296 pages
...the laws of our moral nature, and would, moreover, place religion out of the sphere of all analogy. " All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it?"1 Strange that any should think... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1851 - 204 pages
...is higher and better. "All things," says Colridge, "sirive to ascend and ascend in their strivings. And shall man alone stoop? Shall his pursuits and...inward life, be like the reflected image of a tree in the edge of a pool, that grows down and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable elements beneath? How... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 528 pages
...lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighborhood with the slim... | |
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