The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1854 |
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Page 31
... equally true , that wanting all the cement of thought as well as of style , all the connections , and ( if you will forgive so trivial a metaphor ) all the hooks - and - eyes of the memory , they are easily forgotten or rather , it is ...
... equally true , that wanting all the cement of thought as well as of style , all the connections , and ( if you will forgive so trivial a metaphor ) all the hooks - and - eyes of the memory , they are easily forgotten or rather , it is ...
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... when the effect may be equally well ac- counted for by declaring the author unintelligible ; or that he should accuse his own inattention , when by half a dozen phrases of abuse , as " heavy stuff , metaphysical jargon.
... when the effect may be equally well ac- counted for by declaring the author unintelligible ; or that he should accuse his own inattention , when by half a dozen phrases of abuse , as " heavy stuff , metaphysical jargon.
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... equally appro- priate prefer always that from the book which is least likely to have come into my readers ' hands . For I often please myself with the fancy , now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole ...
... equally appro- priate prefer always that from the book which is least likely to have come into my readers ' hands . For I often please myself with the fancy , now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole ...
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... equally to literary , toleration : - " If it be said that in France there is liberty of conscience in part , it is also plain that while the hierarchy is standing , this liberty is falling , and that if ever it comes to pull down the ...
... equally to literary , toleration : - " If it be said that in France there is liberty of conscience in part , it is also plain that while the hierarchy is standing , this liberty is falling , and that if ever it comes to pull down the ...
Page 78
... equally , working to good and to evil . And were I the chooser , a dram of well - doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil - doing . For God , sure , esteems the growth and completion of one ...
... equally , working to good and to evil . And were I the chooser , a dram of well - doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil - doing . For God , sure , esteems the growth and completion of one ...
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Page 176 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Page 46 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 460 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 410 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 190 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge Angels? how much more things that pertain to this life...
Page 461 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise : But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized ; High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 413 - Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience ; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow : Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.
Page 375 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Page 410 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a seacoal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Page 77 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...