 When I heard of the death of Coleridge, it was without grief. It seemed to me that he long had been on the confines of the next world, - that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he was...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 5381863Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism...the first form) at Christ's Hospital, where I was deputy Grecian ; and the same subordination and deference to him I have preserved through a life-long... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 924 pages
...thought, I cannot malee a criticism on «¡en or lioo/.'S witlioat an ineffectual turning and nfcrtnce to him. He was the proof and touchstone of all my cogitations. . . . He was my jißy-years' old friend without a dissension. Never saw I his likeness, nor probably the world can... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - Essays - 1857 - 378 pages
...alluding to his friend Coleridge, then recently deceased, says : " His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism...the proof and touchstone of 'all my cogitations.'" in the theatre within us. Ideality is in this respect the nearest approach to reality. This expansive... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - Authors, English - 1866 - 258 pages
...for eternity. But since I feel how great a part he was of me, his great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism...and touchstone of all my cogitations. . . . . He was my fifty years' old friend without a dissension. Never saw I his likeness, nor probably the world can... | |
 | 1867 - 568 pages
...his sorrow. " His great and dear spirit haunts me," he says. " I cannot think a thought, or make aj criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning and reference to him." Silent, as all great grief must ever be, was his grief for his friend ; but his loss was a thought... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1867 - 614 pages
...could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism...without an ineffectual turning and reference to him Never saw I hie likeness, nor probably the world can see again.' These words show the royal influence... | |
 | John Timbs - Humorists - 1874 - 360 pages
...could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men and things, without an ineffectual turning and reference to him. He was the proof and touchstone of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 466 pages
...could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism...the first form) at Christ's Hospital, where I was deputy Grecian ; and the same subordination and deference to him I have preserved through a life-long... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism...touchstone of all my cogitations. He was a Grecian (as in the first form) at Christ's Hospital, where I was a deputy Grecian ; and the same subordination... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 438 pages
...grieve His great, dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on man or books, without an ineffectual turning and reference...was the proof and touchstone of all my cogitations I seem to love the house he died at more passionately than when lie lived." How well and tersely he... | |
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