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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... observations merely empirical , or un- conscious in how many departments of knowledge , and with how large a portion even of professional men , such principles are still a desideratum . I would select , too , one who felt kindly , nay ...
... observations merely empirical , or un- conscious in how many departments of knowledge , and with how large a portion even of professional men , such principles are still a desideratum . I would select , too , one who felt kindly , nay ...
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... observations to literature , I deem such criteria neither difficult to determine nor to apply . The first mark , as it appears to me , is a frequent bare assertion of opinions not generally received , without condescending to pre- fix ...
... observations to literature , I deem such criteria neither difficult to determine nor to apply . The first mark , as it appears to me , is a frequent bare assertion of opinions not generally received , without condescending to pre- fix ...
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... observations , in regard to which he must plead wilful ignorance in order to be acquitted of dishonest plagiarism . On the same seat must the writer be placed , who in a disquisition on any important subject proves , by falsehoods ...
... observations , in regard to which he must plead wilful ignorance in order to be acquitted of dishonest plagiarism . On the same seat must the writer be placed , who in a disquisition on any important subject proves , by falsehoods ...
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... observing how deeply children resent the injury of a delusion ; and if men laugh at the falsehoods that were imposed on themselves during their childhood , it is because they are not good and wise enough to contemplate the past in the ...
... observing how deeply children resent the injury of a delusion ; and if men laugh at the falsehoods that were imposed on themselves during their childhood , it is because they are not good and wise enough to contemplate the past in the ...
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... Observe , how graciously nature in- structs her human children . She can not give us the knowledge derived from sight without occasioning us at first to mistake images of reflection for substances . But the very consequences of the ...
... Observe , how graciously nature in- structs her human children . She can not give us the knowledge derived from sight without occasioning us at first to mistake images of reflection for substances . But the very consequences of the ...
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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...