 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 242 pages
...than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production...wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this OF KUBLA KHAN. 53 moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...lines of poetry — " if that indeed," says be, ' can be called composition, in which all the nuages rose up before him as things, with a parallel production...sensation, or consciousness of effort." — On awaking he began to write down these effusions ; but being called off, and detained above an hour, he found to... | |
 | 1816 - 676 pages
...from two to three hundred lines; if that, indeed, can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expression, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awaking, he appeared to nimself to... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pages
...from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production...unfortunately called out by a person on business from Parlock, and detained by lam above an hour, and on his return to his room, found to his no small surprise... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 400 pages
...lines; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as tliingi, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions,...any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awaking be appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper,... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...composition had almost always happened to him in the production of his poems, viz., that " the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions." We cannot but believe that usually his " visions flit very palpably before him," from the effect of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...that indeed can be called composition in which nil the image« rose UP b<Ttir<j him an things, witli n awaAinp h« appeared to himself to have a •li-iimrt recollection of tlie whole, and taking his pen.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1834 - 312 pages
...two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images roso up before him as things, with a parallel production...consciousness of effort. On awaking he appeared to him•elf to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking hi* pen, ink, and paper, instantly... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1835 - 320 pages
...from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any se%sation or consciousness of effort. On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1837 - 1032 pages
...therein.. two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production...without any sensation or consciousness of effort." Ou awaking he instantly sat down to commit his poem to paper. After having written so many lines as... | |
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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... 
