 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings," says Coleridge, in the Preface to his Poems ; " and I consider myself as having been amply repaid...it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings," says Coleridge, in the Preface to his Poems; " and I consider myself as having been amply repaid...reward? it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 656 pages
...expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings,' says Coleridge, in the preface to his Poems ; 'and I consider myself as having been amply repaid...it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...ho admires in a drinking-song, for him I have not written. InleUigikilia, turn intellectam adfero. crtatcd »hall o'er-read : And tonfuce to be yuur...When all the breathers of thin world are dead ; You ¡is own "exceeding great reward :" it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...which they tread 1 Coleridge says, with the enthusiasm of a genius, — "I expect neither profit cor general fame by my writings, and I consider myself...been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to ma its own exceeding great reward ; it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refinea my... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...expect neither profitjaor^general fame by my_writings," say_s Coleridge, in the Preface to his Poems; "and I consider myself as having been amply repaid...either. Poetry has been to me its ' own exceeding great rewards it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared... | |
 | 1845 - 1072 pages
...strongest thinker, and scarce-equalled poet of our times, we must conclude this article, as we began it. " Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward...it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied my enjoyments ; and it has given me the habit of endeavouring to discover the good and beautiful in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings," saya Coleridge, in the Preface to his Poems ; " and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its i own exceeding great reward :' it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings," says Coleridge, in the Preface to his Poems ; " and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its i own exceeding great reward :' it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments;... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American poetry - 1845 - 376 pages
...eloquent writer : — " Though I expect from them neither profit nor general fame, I consider myself amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me, its own exceeding great reward. It possesses power to soothe affliction, to multiply and refine enjoyment, to endear solitude, and to... | |
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Poetry has been to me its own " exceeding great reward :" it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that... 
