 My former thoughts returned : the fear that kills ; And hope that is unwilling to be fed ; Cold, pain, and labor, and all fleshly ills ; And mighty Poets in their misery dead.  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 2181886Full view - About this book
 | 1851
...times so exclusively as almost to render me unobservant of its corrective and higher tendencies. 1 The fear that kills, and hope that is unwilling to be fed ' — These I have known ; I have even heard a voice, yes, not like a creation of the fancy, but an... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 351 pages
...three following stanzas, compared both with the first and the third. "My former thoughts returned, the fear that kills, And hope that is unwilling to be fed ; Cold, pain, and labor and all fleshly ills; And mighty poets in their misery dead. But now, perplex'd by what the old... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 351 pages
...three following stanzas, compared both with the first and the third. "My former thoughts returned, the fear that kills, And hope that is unwilling to be fed ; Cold, pain, and labor and all fleshly ills ; And mighty poets in their misery dead. But now, perplex'd by what the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 546 pages
...three following stanzas, compared both with the first and the third. " My former thought! returned, its clan, That donees as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hangi labor and all flcihly ill* ; And mighty poets in their misery dead. Bui now, perplex'd by what the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 804 pages
...three following stanzas, compared both with the first and the third. " My former thoughts returned ; the fear that kills ; And hope that is unwilling to be fed ; Cold, pain, and labor, and all fleshly ills ; And mighty Poets in their misery dead. But now, perplex'd by what the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1851
...certain times so exclusively as almost to rendarme unobservant of its corrective and higher tendencies. " The fear that kills, and hope that is unwilling to be fed." — These I have known ; I have even heard a voice, yes, not like a creation of the fancy, but an audible... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853
...teas, while he tpake, afire about his ryes." which now stands thus : "My former thoughts returned; the fear that kills; And hope that is unwilling to be fed; Cold, pain, and labor, and all fleshly ilk; And mighty Poets in their misery dead. Bat DOW, perplex'd by what the Old... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854
...some far region sent, To give me human strength, by apt admonishment. My former thoughts returned : the fear that kills ; And hope that is unwilling to be fed ; Cold, pain, and labor, and all fleshly ills ; And mighty Poets in their misery dead. — Perplexed, and longing to... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856
...melancholy lines of Wordsworth recurred to me witX peculiar effect : " My former thoughts returned ; the fear that kills ; And hope that is unwilling to be fed ; Cold, pain, and labor, and all fleshly ills; And mighty poets in their misery dead." T2 WILLIAM COWPER. THERE is scarcely... | |
 | 1856
...certain times so exclusively as almost to render me unobservant of its corrective and higher tendencies. The fear that kills, and hope that is unwilling to be fed, — these I have known ; I have even heard a voice, — yes, not like a creation of the fancy, but... | |
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