The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted... The Christian Teacher - Page 2471839Full view - About this book
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 pages
...his own ease in the preface to Eudymion : ' The imagination of a boy,' he says, ' is healthy, and ' the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there...character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the amhition ' thick-sighted : thence proceeds mawkishness.' The diagnosis of the complaint is well laid... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 512 pages
...imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of man is healthy ; but there is a space between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character...life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted : thence proceed mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...lileralure. Tlic imaginalion of a boy is heallhy, and the mature imapinalion of a man is hcallhy ; till Doth the old instinct bring hack the old names. And to yon s me way of life uncerlain, the ambition lliick-sighled: thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...literature. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; bnt there is a space of life between, in which the soul...undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition mirk-sighted : thence proceed mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 - 634 pages
...look with a jealous eye, to the honor of English literature. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there...life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted : thence proceed mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of, must necessarily taste... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 552 pages
...look with a jealous eye, to the honor of English literature. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there...life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted : thence proceed mawkishnesB, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of, must necessarily taste... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 554 pages
...look with a jealous eye, to the honor of English litemture. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there...life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the chamcter undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted : thence proceed mawkishness,... | |
| 1912 - 880 pages
...which are most pertinent to the present matter: "The Imagination of a boy," he says, "is healthy, and the mature Imagination of a man is healthy; but there...the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, and the ambitions thick-sighted. Thence proceed melancholia, and all the thousand bitters." Such is... | |
| John Keats - 1846 - 340 pages
...look with a zealous eye, to the honor of English literature. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there...uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted : thence proceeds PREFACE. mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceed mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of, must necessarily loste in going over the following pages. I hope I have not in too late a day touched the beautiful... | |
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