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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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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awakening he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection...taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly writedown the lines that arc here preserved. At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person...
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Longman's Magazine, Volume 7

1886 - 704 pages
...vivid consciousness 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.' Then came the ever-execrated ' person on business from Porlock,' and Coleridge lost the remainder of...
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Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sir Hall Caine - Critics - 1887 - 188 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...paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that were near neighbours. That period was probably the happiest in his life. Free from pecuniary embarrassments,...
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The Poems of S. T. Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1888 - 330 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...parallel production of the correspondent expressions, withont any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awakening he appeared to himself to have a distinct...
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Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1888 - 328 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...things, with a parallel production of the correspondent exSressious, without any sensation or consciousness of effort, n awakening he appeared to himself to...
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The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Volume 5

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 1372 pages
...had the most vivid impression that he had composed between 200 and 300 lines. The images, he says, " rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensations or consciousness of effort." On awakening, he had so distinct a remembrance of the whole,...
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Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys

William Ernest Henley - American poetry - 1891 - 404 pages
...that he could not have composed less than three hundred lines ' ; ' if that,' he adds, ' can be called composition, in which all the images rose up before...without any sensation or consciousness of effort.' On awakening, he proceeded to write out his ' composition,' and had set down as much of it as is printed...
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Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys

William Ernest Henley - American poetry - 1891 - 394 pages
...that he could not have composed less than three hundred lines ' ; ' if that,' he adds, ' can be called composition, in which all the images rose up before...without any sensation or consciousness of effort' On awakening, he proceeded to write out his ' composition,' and had set down as much of it as is printed...
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Cathcart's Literary Reader: A Manual of English Literature : Being Typical ...

George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...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...preserved. At this moment he was unfortunately called out and detained above an hour, and on his return to his room, found to his no small surprise and mortification,...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 886 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...wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this 1 ' In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately Palace, encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with...
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