Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...Harper & Brothers, 1835 - Critics |
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... spirit of vexation that such a strain of music as I had just heard , should not last for ever . What I did once , I was easily induced by the same feeling to do again ; and when , after many years of affectionate communion between us ...
... spirit of vexation that such a strain of music as I had just heard , should not last for ever . What I did once , I was easily induced by the same feeling to do again ; and when , after many years of affectionate communion between us ...
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... spirit , till his total being vibrated with one pulse alone , and thought became merged in contemplation ; - And so , his senses gradually wrapt In a half sleep , he'd dream of better worlds , And dreaming hear thee still , O singing ...
... spirit , till his total being vibrated with one pulse alone , and thought became merged in contemplation ; - And so , his senses gradually wrapt In a half sleep , he'd dream of better worlds , And dreaming hear thee still , O singing ...
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... that the cause of freedom and of truth is now seriously menaced by a democratical spirit , growing more and more rabid every day , and giving no doubtful promise of the 2 PREFACE . xiii cision. As I never attempted to give dialogue—...
... that the cause of freedom and of truth is now seriously menaced by a democratical spirit , growing more and more rabid every day , and giving no doubtful promise of the 2 PREFACE . xiii cision. As I never attempted to give dialogue—...
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... spirit of a reflective patriotism , without spleen , or bitterness , or breach of social union . * * These volumes have had the rather singular fortune of being made the subject of three several reviews before publication . One of them ...
... spirit of a reflective patriotism , without spleen , or bitterness , or breach of social union . * * These volumes have had the rather singular fortune of being made the subject of three several reviews before publication . One of them ...
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... spirit as his ! Nor , even with regard to Coleridge , is this the time or place if it were ever or anywhere worth the while - to expose the wild mistakes and the monstrous caricature pre- vailing throughout the lighter parts of Mr ...
... spirit as his ! Nor , even with regard to Coleridge , is this the time or place if it were ever or anywhere worth the while - to expose the wild mistakes and the monstrous caricature pre- vailing throughout the lighter parts of Mr ...
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Page 94 - And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live ? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
Page 37 - The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion ! In mad game They burst their manacles and wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain...
Page 73 - In Shakespeare's poems the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace. Each in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the other. At length in the DRAMA they were reconciled, and fought each with its shield before the breast of the other.
Page 38 - Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour; But thou nor swell'st the victor's strain, nor ever Didst breathe thy soul in forms of human power. Alike from all, howe'er they praise thee, (Nor prayer, nor boastful name delays thee) Alike from Priestcraft's harpy minions, And factious Blasphemy's obscener slaves, Thou speedest on thy subtle pinions, The guide of homeless winds, and play-mate of the waves!
Page 42 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts ; then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Page 148 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers. Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 9 - If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us ! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us ! DECEMBER 27, 1831.
Page 165 - By four cherubic Shapes. Four faces each Had wondrous ; as with stars, their bodies all And wings were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between ; Over their heads a crystal firmament.
Page 115 - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib: But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.
Page 37 - I think Wordsworth possessed more of the genius of a great philosophic poet than any man I ever knew, or, as I believe, has existed in England since Milton; but it seems to me that he ought never to have abandoned the contemplative position, which is peculiarly, perhaps I might say exclusively, fitted for him His proper title is, Spectator ab extra.