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... manner , so simple his language , so affectionate the glance of his pleasant eye ! There were , indeed , some whom Coleridge tired , and some whom he sent asleep . It would occasionally so happen , when the abstruser mood was strong ...
... manner , so simple his language , so affectionate the glance of his pleasant eye ! There were , indeed , some whom Coleridge tired , and some whom he sent asleep . It would occasionally so happen , when the abstruser mood was strong ...
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... manner was plain and direct enough ; and even when , as sometimes happened , he seemed to ramble from the road , and to lose himself in a wilderness of digres- sions , the truth was , that at that very time he was working out his ...
... manner was plain and direct enough ; and even when , as sometimes happened , he seemed to ramble from the road , and to lose himself in a wilderness of digres- sions , the truth was , that at that very time he was working out his ...
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... manner . Yet with all this , so peculiar were the flow and breadth of Mr. Coleridge's conversation , that I am very sensible how much those who can best judge will have to complain of my representation of it . The following specimens ...
... manner . Yet with all this , so peculiar were the flow and breadth of Mr. Coleridge's conversation , that I am very sensible how much those who can best judge will have to complain of my representation of it . The following specimens ...
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... manners , and I never doubted his delicacy or his uprightness . His opportunities of seeing Mr Coleridge were at a ... manner : 6 Returning late ( August , 1807 ) from this interesting survey , we found ourselves without company at ...
... manners , and I never doubted his delicacy or his uprightness . His opportunities of seeing Mr Coleridge were at a ... manner : 6 Returning late ( August , 1807 ) from this interesting survey , we found ourselves without company at ...
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... manner , I sus- pect to have been not original . Think , therefore , if you have anywhere read a plausible solution . ' " " I have and it was in a German author . This Ger- man , understand , is a poor stick of a man , not to be named ...
... manner , I sus- pect to have been not original . Think , therefore , if you have anywhere read a plausible solution . ' " " I have and it was in a German author . This Ger- man , understand , is a poor stick of a man , not to be named ...
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Page 310 - Etrurian shades High overarched embower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry. While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown. Abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. He called so loud that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded...
Page 309 - By four Cherubic shapes. Four faces each Had wondrous; as with stars, their bodies all And wings were set with eyes ; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between...
Page 468 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 449 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 262 - Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Page 189 - IV. Forgive me, Freedom ! O forgive those dreams ! I hear thy voice, I hear thy loud lament, From bleak Helvetia's icy cavern sent — I hear thy groans upon her blood-stained streams ! Heroes, that for your peaceful country perished, And ye that, fleeing, spot your mountain-snows With bleeding wounds ; forgive me, that I cherished...
Page 331 - He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Page 195 - Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play...
Page 293 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers. Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 220 - This beauty, in the blossom of my youth, When my first fire knew no adulterate incense, Nor I no way to flatter, but my fondness, In all the bravery my friends could...