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... poet , if a principle of fluctuation and reaction is not inherent in the very constitution of our nature . or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to inquire what certain things are abstractedly or ...
... poet , if a principle of fluctuation and reaction is not inherent in the very constitution of our nature . or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to inquire what certain things are abstractedly or ...
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... poetry , and can hardly extract a moral out of Shakespear . His house is warmed and lighted by steam . He is one of those who prefer the artificial to the natural in most things , and think the mind of man omnipotent . He has a great ...
... poetry , and can hardly extract a moral out of Shakespear . His house is warmed and lighted by steam . He is one of those who prefer the artificial to the natural in most things , and think the mind of man omnipotent . He has a great ...
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... poetry and the drama . He relishes Donne and Ben Jonson , and recites a passage from either with an agreeable mixture of pedantry and bon- hommie . He is not one of those who do not grow wiser with opportunity and reflection : he ...
... poetry and the drama . He relishes Donne and Ben Jonson , and recites a passage from either with an agreeable mixture of pedantry and bon- hommie . He is not one of those who do not grow wiser with opportunity and reflection : he ...
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... poet , he would have been a powerful logician ; if he had not dipped his wing in the Unitarian contro- versy , he might have soared to the very summit of fancy . But , in writing verse , he is trying to subject the Muse to ...
... poet , he would have been a powerful logician ; if he had not dipped his wing in the Unitarian contro- versy , he might have soared to the very summit of fancy . But , in writing verse , he is trying to subject the Muse to ...
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... poet . Mr. Coleridge talks of himself without being an , egotist ; for in him the indi- vidual is always merged in the abstract and general . He distinguished himself at school and at the University by his knowledge of the classics ...
... poet . Mr. Coleridge talks of himself without being an , egotist ; for in him the indi- vidual is always merged in the abstract and general . He distinguished himself at school and at the University by his knowledge of the classics ...
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Page 307 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 226 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 114 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 247 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 226 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
Page 46 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.