My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan; Till that... Studies in Poetry and Philosophy - Page 177by John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 399 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1863 - 446 pages
...must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From ray own nature all the natural man — This was my sole...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. VIL Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Eeality's dark dream ! I turn from you, and listen... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 272 pages
...feel, But to be still and patient all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal, From my mm, nature, all the natural man ; This was my sole resource,...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." Such were, doubtless, the true and radical causes which, for the final twenty-four years of Coleridge's... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 358 pages
...all I can, And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man, — Thia was my sole resource, my only plan ; Till that which...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." Considering the exquisite quality of some poems which Coleridge has composed, nobody can grieve (or... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 328 pages
...Imagination. For not to think of what I nee Is must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. vII. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream ! I turn from you, and listen... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1864 - 340 pages
...— " For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient all I can, And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." Considering the exquisite quality of some poems which Coleridge has composed, nobody can grieve (or... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...Bounds.* [For not to think of what I needs must feel. But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my souL Poet. Works, p. 181. The passage in the text has been more than once cited by those who cite nothing... | |
| John Weiss - 1864 - 514 pages
...can, And, haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was (is) my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." But I 'will trouble you with no more threnodies, and I know you will forgive me this once. TO THE SAME.... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 pages
...by abstruse researeh to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resouree, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. Poet, Works, p. 181. The passage in the text has been more than once cited by those who cite nothing... | |
| 1865 - 550 pages
...introvertive turn of mind which, at some stages of his life, had nearly overbalanced him. In an often-quoted passage from the Ode to Dejection, written at Keswick...What then was his ultimate metaphysical philosophy ? This is not set forth systematically in any of his works, but we must gather it, as best we can,... | |
| 1865 - 550 pages
...of his life, had nearly overbalanced him. In an often-quoted passage from the Ode to Dejection, i 1 written at Keswick in 1802, he laments the decay within...What then was his ultimate metaphysical philosophy ? This is not set forth systematically in any of his works, but we must gather it, as best we can,... | |
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