The Works of Samuel Taylor ColeridgeCrissy & Markley, 1849 - 546 pages |
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... human happiness present . ed themselves before the triad of philosophical founders of Utopian empires , while they were dreaming of human perfectibility : —a harmless dream at least , and an aspiration after better things than life's ...
... human happiness present . ed themselves before the triad of philosophical founders of Utopian empires , while they were dreaming of human perfectibility : —a harmless dream at least , and an aspiration after better things than life's ...
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... human freedom , his time was principally devoted to literature and which he ever espoused ; while Southey has be- philosophy . At the end of his " Biographia Liter come the enemy of political and religious freedom , aria , ” Coleridge ...
... human freedom , his time was principally devoted to literature and which he ever espoused ; while Southey has be- philosophy . At the end of his " Biographia Liter come the enemy of political and religious freedom , aria , ” Coleridge ...
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... Human Nature : and , behold ! A sea of blood bestrew'd with wrecks , where mad Embattling Interests on each other rush With unhelm'd rage ! " Tis the sublime of man , Our noontide Majesty , to know ourselves Our charities and bearings ...
... Human Nature : and , behold ! A sea of blood bestrew'd with wrecks , where mad Embattling Interests on each other rush With unhelm'd rage ! " Tis the sublime of man , Our noontide Majesty , to know ourselves Our charities and bearings ...
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... human ministers from such states As still the Epic song half fears to name , Repell'd from all the Minstrelsies that strike The Palace - roof and soothe the Monarch's pride . And such , perhaps , the Spirit , who ( if words Witness'd by ...
... human ministers from such states As still the Epic song half fears to name , Repell'd from all the Minstrelsies that strike The Palace - roof and soothe the Monarch's pride . And such , perhaps , the Spirit , who ( if words Witness'd by ...
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... human power . Alike from all , howe'er they praise thee ( Not prayer nor boastful name delays thee ) , Alike from Priestcraft's harpy minions , And factious Blasphemy's obscener slaves , Thou speedest on thy subtle pinions , And all the ...
... human power . Alike from all , howe'er they praise thee ( Not prayer nor boastful name delays thee ) , Alike from Priestcraft's harpy minions , And factious Blasphemy's obscener slaves , Thou speedest on thy subtle pinions , And all the ...
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Page 64 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 300 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement...
Page 65 - I never saw aught like to them, Unless perchance it were "Brown skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf's young.
Page 70 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 62 - Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.
Page 373 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 66 - I bid thee say What manner of man art thou?" Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale; And then it left me free. Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
Page 67 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 43 - Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side, Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm, Fill up the interspersed vacancies And momentary pauses of the thought...
Page 43 - ... mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe, shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags : so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in Himself.