The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volumen 1William Pickering, 1838 - 362 páginas |
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... genius - of simple calling and more simple habits , though best known perhaps by his book on Angling ; yet in the scarcely less attractive pages of his biographies , like the flowing of the gentle stream on which he sometimes cast his ...
... genius - of simple calling and more simple habits , though best known perhaps by his book on Angling ; yet in the scarcely less attractive pages of his biographies , like the flowing of the gentle stream on which he sometimes cast his ...
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... genius . I met among some of his notes , written at the age of fifty - one , the following critique on one of his schoolboy themes : " This theme was " written at the age of fifteen : it does not con- " tain a line that any schoolboy ...
... genius . I met among some of his notes , written at the age of fifty - one , the following critique on one of his schoolboy themes : " This theme was " written at the age of fifteen : it does not con- " tain a line that any schoolboy ...
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... genius . He pictures to himself a boy returning to school after the holidays ; in his day - dreams making plans for the future , and anticipating the pleasure he is to enjoy on his return home ; his vivid thoughts , and sanguine ...
... genius . He pictures to himself a boy returning to school after the holidays ; in his day - dreams making plans for the future , and anticipating the pleasure he is to enjoy on his return home ; his vivid thoughts , and sanguine ...
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... genius , and that during this early period of his life , his mind was incessantly toiling in the pur- suit of knowledge . His love of reading seemed to have increased in proportion to his acquire- ments , which were equally great : his ...
... genius , and that during this early period of his life , his mind was incessantly toiling in the pur- suit of knowledge . His love of reading seemed to have increased in proportion to his acquire- ments , which were equally great : his ...
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... why therefore Cambridge has " produced so few men of genius and original power since the time " of Newton . - Not only it does not call forth the balancing and rested in the success of his scholars to overlook what 34 LIFE OF COLERIDGE .
... why therefore Cambridge has " produced so few men of genius and original power since the time " of Newton . - Not only it does not call forth the balancing and rested in the success of his scholars to overlook what 34 LIFE OF COLERIDGE .
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Página 117 - There was a time when, though my path was rough, This joy within me dallied with distress, And all misfortunes were but as the stuff Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness: For hope grew round me, like the twining vine, And fruits and foliage, not my own, seemed mine.
Página 301 - A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks That always finds and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light...
Página 104 - Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic — yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Página 72 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Página 292 - And with low voice and doleful look These words did say: "In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell, Which is lord of thy utterance, Christabel...
Página 284 - Is the night chilly and dark? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin grey cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill...
Página 284 - Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel, Whom her father loves so well, What makes her in the wood so late, A furlong from the castle gate? She had dreams all yesternight Of her own betrothed knight; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away.
Página 15 - ... being kind to me in the great city, after a little forced notice, which they had the grace to take of me on my first arrival in town, soon grew tired of my holiday visits. They seemed to them to recur too often, though I thought them few enough; and, one after another, they all failed me, and I felt myself alone among six hundred playmates. O the cruelty of separating a poor lad from his early homestead!
Página 299 - A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head; Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye...
Página 14 - My parents, and those who should care for me, were far away. Those few acquaintances of theirs, which they could reckon upon being kind to me in the great city, after a little forced notice, which they had the grace to take of me on my first arrival in town, soon grew tired of my holiday visits.