 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...admires in a drinking-song, for him 1 have not written. Inttlligilalia, non inttllcctum adfero. I eipect neither profit nor general fame by my writings ; and...repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own •• eiceeding great reward : " it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...as lifeless as the clods on which they tread I Coleridge says, with the enthusiasm of a genius, — "I expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings,...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...as lifeless as the clods on which they tread ! Coleridge says, with the enthusiasm of a genius. — "I expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings,...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... | |
 | Art - 1851 - 490 pages
...what so charms Their own." Again, Coleridge writes, " I expect neither profit nor general fame from my writings, and I consider myself as having been...; 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 - English poetry - 1851 - 282 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... | |
 | Miss Ludlow - Art - 1851 - 486 pages
...what BO charms Their own." Again, Coleridge writes, " I expect neither profit nor general fame from my writings, and I consider myself as having been...its own exceeding great reward : it has soothed my afllictions, it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude, and it has given... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 pages
...he admires in a drinking-song, for him I have not written. Intelligibilia, lion intellectum adfero. I expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings...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 - English literature - 1853 - 728 pages
...Intelligibilia, non intellcctum adfero. I expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings ; and J. consider myself as having been amply repaid without...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... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...Coleridge — who, speaking of the delight which he had experienced in writing his Poems, says — "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... | |
 | John Todd - Students - 1853 - 302 pages
...by the colours of the 130 POETRY ITS OWN KEWARD. rainbow all the time. Says the gifted Coleridge, " 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... | |
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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... 
