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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... less minuteness many particular systems and codes of opinion lying in his way ; and in stating the grounds of his rejection of some , and entire or partial admission of others of them , he has in effect expressed his own convictions ...
... less minuteness many particular systems and codes of opinion lying in his way ; and in stating the grounds of his rejection of some , and entire or partial admission of others of them , he has in effect expressed his own convictions ...
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... less suited to a periodical essay . This fault I am now endeavoring to correct ; though I can never so far sacrifice my judgment to the desire of being immediately popular , as to cast my sentences in the French moulds , or affect a ...
... less suited to a periodical essay . This fault I am now endeavoring to correct ; though I can never so far sacrifice my judgment to the desire of being immediately popular , as to cast my sentences in the French moulds , or affect a ...
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... less absurd than to recommend exercise with the dumb - bells , as the only mode of cure , to a pa- tient paralytic in both arms . You well know , that my expecta- tions were more modest as well as more rational . I hoped , that my ...
... less absurd than to recommend exercise with the dumb - bells , as the only mode of cure , to a pa- tient paralytic in both arms . You well know , that my expecta- tions were more modest as well as more rational . I hoped , that my ...
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... less respected , more or less worthy of respect . * Lastly , it must be admitted as a just imputation of presumption * Had the author of the Divine Legation of Moses more skilfully appro- priated his coarse eloquence of abuse , his ...
... less respected , more or less worthy of respect . * Lastly , it must be admitted as a just imputation of presumption * Had the author of the Divine Legation of Moses more skilfully appro- priated his coarse eloquence of abuse , his ...
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... less dangerous than false- hood , sounds less offensively at the first hearing , only because it hides its deformity in an equivocation , or double meaning of the word truth . What may be rightly affirmed of truth , used as synonymous ...
... less dangerous than false- hood , sounds less offensively at the first hearing , only because it hides its deformity in an equivocation , or double meaning of the word truth . What may be rightly affirmed of truth , used as synonymous ...
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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...
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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...