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Page 570
... letters , in whom he anticipated rising genius . His scrutoire has been edited ; and it abounds with complaints that his friends are less fond of writing useless epistles than himself , and were one by one letting drop an intercourse ...
... letters , in whom he anticipated rising genius . His scrutoire has been edited ; and it abounds with complaints that his friends are less fond of writing useless epistles than himself , and were one by one letting drop an intercourse ...
Page 573
... a youth led from his first boyhood to investi . 30 [ Sidonius Apollinaris was a Christian writer , born A. D. 430 , author of Letters and Poems . S. C. ] gate the meaning of every word , and the reason BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA . 573.
... a youth led from his first boyhood to investi . 30 [ Sidonius Apollinaris was a Christian writer , born A. D. 430 , author of Letters and Poems . S. C. ] gate the meaning of every word , and the reason BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA . 573.
Page 593
... of this work . 61 [ Coleridge's Poetical Works , i . , p . 238. S. C. Miraturque novas frondes , et non sua poma Georg . 11. , v . 82. Ed . ] SATYRANE'S LETTERS . LETTER I. 66 ON Sunday morning , BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA . 593.
... of this work . 61 [ Coleridge's Poetical Works , i . , p . 238. S. C. Miraturque novas frondes , et non sua poma Georg . 11. , v . 82. Ed . ] SATYRANE'S LETTERS . LETTER I. 66 ON Sunday morning , BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA . 593.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge Sara Coleridge Coleridge. SATYRANE'S LETTERS . LETTER I. 66 ON Sunday morning , September 16 , 1798 , the Hamburg packet set sail from Yarmouth , and I , for the first time in my life , be ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge Sara Coleridge Coleridge. SATYRANE'S LETTERS . LETTER I. 66 ON Sunday morning , September 16 , 1798 , the Hamburg packet set sail from Yarmouth , and I , for the first time in my life , be ...
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... idea of a man , I submitted , by a bow , even to the aspersion implied in the word " un Philosophe . " - The Dane then informed me , that all in the present party were Philosophers likewise . Certes we were not SATYRANE'S LETTERS . 595.
... idea of a man , I submitted , by a bow , even to the aspersion implied in the word " un Philosophe . " - The Dane then informed me , that all in the present party were Philosophers likewise . Certes we were not SATYRANE'S LETTERS . 595.
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Page 588 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 498 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 459 - No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Page 587 - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise...
Page 553 - Joyous as morning Thou art laughing and scorning ; Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest, And, though little troubled with sloth, Drunken Lark ! thou would'st be loth To be such a traveller as I. Happy, happy Liver, With a soul as strong as a mountain river Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver...
Page 504 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears alas! for other notes repine; A different object do these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Page 457 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace...
Page 451 - What is poetry? — is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? — that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other.
Page 443 - 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...
Page 588 - Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither ; Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.