 | Literature - 1861 - 502 pages
..."of the best and happ'ust moments of the hap-' piest and best minds." " Poetry," says Coleridge, " has been to me its own 'exceeding great reward ;' it has soothed my afflictions ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1862 - 738 pages
...sorry recompense for the trouble of calling upon him for his return. "f Coleridge has himself said, " I expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings...consider myself as having been amply repaid without income." + At the time of Coleridge's death in 1834, the copyright of many of his poems had terminated... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...feel of poesy do we become Like God in love and power. Bailey. POETBY— Besplendent Qualities of. and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 1864 - 332 pages
...of matter and manner—fanlts which assuredly did not enter into the character of my compositions. I expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings;...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 720 pages
...he admires in a drinking-song, for him I have not written. Intelligibilia, non 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... | |
 | David Thomas - 1865 - 754 pages
...light, life, love, and beauty. " Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." Coleridge said, " Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward. It has soothed my affliction, it has endeared solitude and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good... | |
 | William Kynaston Groves - Christian poetry, English - 1866 - 170 pages
...who may honour it with their perusal. o|a ru Qeu. THE SACRED HISTORY RUTH, IN SPENSERIAN STANZAS. ' 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... | |
 | Recognition - 1866 - 328 pages
...HEMANS. A treasure but removed — A bright bird parted for a clearer day—- Yours still in heaven ! " 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... | |
 | Roses - Gift books - 1867 - 172 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 \\s own exceeding great reward ; it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 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... | |
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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... 
