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" The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be called... "
The Ancient Mariner: And Select Poems - Page xli
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1908 - 82 pages
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 9

1838 - 530 pages
...three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up hefore him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent...sensation or consciousness of effort.' On awaking he instantly sat down to commit his poem to paper. After having written so many lines as were afterwards...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...composition in which nil the images rose up before him as tkiitgr, with a parallel production of tbe correspondent expressions, without any sensation,...effort. On awaking he appeared to himself to have t distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen. ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote...
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Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Volume 176

Early English newspapers - 1844 - 734 pages
...he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition, in which all the images rose up before...of the whole, and, taking his pen, ink, and paper, he instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved," &c. See Coleridge's, Poems,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 200

American periodicals - 1894 - 854 pages
...most vivid conlldence that he could not have composed less than from two to ! three hundred lines. On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct...eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved." It might very naturally be expected that the poet would •commemorate his snug retreat in his versee,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 175

English essays - 1844 - 752 pages
...he could not hare composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition, in which all the images rose up before...correspondent expressions, without any sensation, or coniciousnets of effort. On awaking, he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 206

Literature - 1895 - 862 pages
...Coleridge dreamed the poem, and only wrote down, when awake, what he remembered out of his dream. " The images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the corresponding expressions." It is not unusual to dream verses, to remember them is rare, to find them...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 23

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1844 - 634 pages
...images rose up before the writer as THiNaa,with a parallel production of the correspondent exprésalona, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awaking, he appeared to have a discmct recollection of the whole : taking his pen, ink and paper, he instantly and eagerly...
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...expressions, without any sensation, or соозсюшi of effort. On awaking he appeared to himself to bave amuel Taylor nenon on bu&ineaa from Porlock, and detained by htm abovii an hour, and on his return to his room,...
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The Constitution of Man

George Combe - Phrenology - 1845 - 498 pages
...that indeed can be called composition in which all the im> ajr-H rose iipbcHire him ;i=»M/W*,with n successful thinking, as if they nad completed some...this labour but as a circumstance of preparation, 10 himself to have a diMinci recollection of the whole : anrl taking his pen, ink, -and p3r>*r instantly...
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On Dreams, in Their Mental and Moral Aspects: As Affording Auxiliary ...

John Sheppard - Dreams - 1847 - 218 pages
...he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition, in which all the images rose up before...to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and instantly and eagerly wrote damn the lines that are here preserved. At this moment he was unfortunately...
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