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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... "
The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge - Page 262
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835
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Christabel: Kubla Khan : a Vision ; The Pains of Sleep

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 242 pages
...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...production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection...
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The Augustan review, Volume 3

1816 - 676 pages
...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...things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expression, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awaking, he appeared to nimself to...
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The Literary Panorama and National Register

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 of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation, or consciousness of effort." — On awaking he began to write down these effusions ; but...
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The Westminster Review, Volume 12

English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...of this 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...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...wbi.-li (mi'1 he has tho most vivid confidence that he could not have componed 1екч thiui from two lo nil the image« rose UP b<Ttir<j him an things, witli n parallel production of the correspondent expressions,...
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The Philosophy of Sleep

Robert Macnish - Hygiene - 1834 - 310 pages
...for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he had the most vivid confidence, that he could not have...production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awaking, he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection...
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volumes 9-10

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1837 - 1032 pages
...Mr. Coleridge' • •tatement we consider onrvelres justified in retaining our o»n ikith therein.. two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be...production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort." Ou awaking he instantly sat down to commit his poem to paper....
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...author continued for abou' three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external KIUWB, during which time he has the most vivid confidence that he...if that indeed can be called composition in which nil the images rose up before him as tkiitgr, with a parallel production of tbe correspondent expressions,...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 9

1838 - 530 pages
...denial of Mr. Coleridge's statement we consider ourselves jusufod in retaining our own faith therein. two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be...called composition in which all the images rose up hefore him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation...
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...sleep, at least of the external senws uring which time he has the most vivid confidence that he couM ot have composed less than from two to three hundred...indeed can be called composition in which all the im«c. s ose up before him as thing*, with a parallel production of the orreapondent expressions, without...
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