 All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 331886Full view - About this book
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...The Devil's Thoughts. And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin, Is pride that apes humility. Love. All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever...but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame, Translated from Schiller i. THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER. Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...just on that account, do not live because they do not love." It is a very grave poet who says, — " All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever...but ministers of love, And feed his sacred flame*." As all enjoyment, some of the wisest men tell us, is more or less founded on love, so is there no wretchedness... | |
 | American essays - 1884 - 882 pages
...that there is no inherent reason why a drum should not serve as well as a flute for such a purpose. " All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever...but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame." I saw two of these flickers clinging to the trunk of a shell-bark tree ; which, by the way, is a tree... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1857 - 432 pages
...heave, and heave for me ! Soothe, gentle image ! soothe my mind ! To-morrow Lewti may be kind. LOVE. ALL thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever...but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I J Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...whom delight cannot be delusion — where in Poetry is there another such Lay of Love as Genevieve ? " All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever...are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame ! " , All Poets who have held close communion with what is called inanimate nature, have given her,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 500 pages
...melodies of the woods — in the third, earth is like heaven ; — for you are made to feel that " All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever...are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame !" Has Coleridge, then, ever written a Great Poem ? No ; for besides the Eegions of the Fair, the Wild,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...whom delight cannot be delusion — where in Poetry is there another such Lay of Love as Genevicve f " All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever...are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame ! " All Poets who have held close communion with what is called inanimate nature, have given her, not... | |
 | 1857 - 802 pages
...the melodies of the woods — in the third, earth is like heaven ;— for you are made to feel that ' All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever...All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flume 1 ' Has Coleridge, then, ever written a Great Poera ? No ; for besides the Regions of the Fair,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...Was it a vision, or a waking dream ? Fled is that music : — do I wake or sleep ? COLERIDGE. LOVE. ALL thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever...this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, A nd feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1858 - 792 pages
...pudct. Veteres tranquilla tumultut M..-HS borret, relegensque alium putat ista locutum. PSTBAECH LOVE. ALL thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever...but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside... | |
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