Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1, Issue 1W. Pickering, 1847 |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 21
Page cxxv
... understanding of it— his determination , powerfully carried out , to simplify the access of the soul to God , not to make the nar- row a broad way , as , in common with St. Paul , he is falsely reported , but a straight and short ...
... understanding of it— his determination , powerfully carried out , to simplify the access of the soul to God , not to make the nar- row a broad way , as , in common with St. Paul , he is falsely reported , but a straight and short ...
Page cxxxviii
... understanding , none is needed , none would serve any purpose of religion ; that theoretic reason has per- formed her whole office in religious proof when she has shewn the impossibility of disproving the objects of faith . Reason ...
... understanding , none is needed , none would serve any purpose of religion ; that theoretic reason has per- formed her whole office in religious proof when she has shewn the impossibility of disproving the objects of faith . Reason ...
Page cxli
... Understanding , is to annul the very being of Reason . For that is a spi- ritual eye analogous to the bodily one . What should we say of an eye that could not be sure whether a particular object was black or blue , round or square ...
... Understanding , is to annul the very being of Reason . For that is a spi- ritual eye analogous to the bodily one . What should we say of an eye that could not be sure whether a particular object was black or blue , round or square ...
Page cxlix
... understanding and human imagination . The following is part of a passage once applied to my Father in a striking article in the Quarterly Review . " When a religious creed is presented , say to a disputa- tious and subtle mind , in ...
... understanding and human imagination . The following is part of a passage once applied to my Father in a striking article in the Quarterly Review . " When a religious creed is presented , say to a disputa- tious and subtle mind , in ...
Page cl
... understanding unirradiated by reason , and fancy uninspired by the spiritual sense ? Of all men in the present age he was among the first and ever among the most earnest to maintain , that " religion must have a moral origin , so far at ...
... understanding unirradiated by reason , and fancy uninspired by the spiritual sense ? Of all men in the present age he was among the first and ever among the most earnest to maintain , that " religion must have a moral origin , so far at ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Antinomianism appear Archdeacon Hare Aristotle baptism believe Biographia Literaria borrowed called Catholic cause chap character Christ Christian Church Coleridge Coleridge's contained criticism denied divine doctrine edition Eucharist evidence expressed faith fancy Father feeling genius German grace habit heart Hobbes Holy honour human Hume ideas imagination intellectual Irenæus justifying language latter least less literary Luther Lyrical Ballads Maasz means ment merits metaphysical mind moral nature never notion object opinions original outward Pantheism party Parva Naturalia passage perhaps persons philosophy poems poet poetic poetry present principles quæ racter reader reason reference religion religious remarks Review S. T. Coleridge salvation Schelling Schelling's Scripture seems sense shew Socinianism Solifidian sonnets soul speaks spirit suppose sure teaching Tertullian things thought tion Transcendental Idealism transubstantiation treatise trine true truth ward law whole words Wordsworth writer καὶ
Popular passages
Page clxxvii - 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 clxxi - I learned from him, that poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes.
Page 53 - ... the original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it the depth and height of the ideal world around forms, incidents, and situations, of which, for the common view, custom had bedimmed all the lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the dew drops.
Page 55 - You may conceive the difference in kind between the Fancy and the Imagination in this way, — that if the check of the senses and the reason were withdrawn, the first would become delirium, and the last mania. The Fancy brings together images which have no connection natural or moral, but are yoked together by the poet by means of some accidental coincidence...
Page 55 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Page 49 - Descriptive Sketches; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced.
Page 5 - Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough : — We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff! " I, too, will have my kings that take From me the sign of life and death : Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath.
Page 22 - ... with the name of reading. Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving phantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the...
Page clxxxv - ... poets sacrificed the passion, and passionate flow of poetry, to the subtleties of intellect and to the starts of wit; the moderns to the glare and 'glitter of a perpetual yet broken and heterogeneous imagery, or rather to an amphibious something, made up, half of image and half of abstract* meaning. The one sacrificed the heart to the head, the other both heart and head to point and drapery.
Page 53 - Repeated meditations led me first to suspect, (and a more intimate analysis of the human faculties, their appropriate marks, functions, and effects matured my conjecture into full conviction,) that fancy and imagination were two distinct and widely different faculties, instead of being, according to the general belief, either two names with one meaning, or, at furthest, the lower and higher degree of one and the same power.