Early Years and Late ReflectionsWhittaker and Company, 1836 - 311 Seiten |
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... Nature relished by man and by no other animal 137 Poem of " Christabel " ....... 139 " Rime of the Ancient Mariner " 66 Religious Musings " " Fears in Solitude " War of the French Revolution defended Tragedy of Osorio . Remorse ...
... Nature relished by man and by no other animal 137 Poem of " Christabel " ....... 139 " Rime of the Ancient Mariner " 66 Religious Musings " " Fears in Solitude " War of the French Revolution defended Tragedy of Osorio . Remorse ...
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... Nature around us was wet and comfortless ; but the wind returning in the night to a cold quarter , afforded us an opportunity of witnessing , when we arose in the morning , a scene of such transcendent beauty as could only be rivalled ...
... Nature around us was wet and comfortless ; but the wind returning in the night to a cold quarter , afforded us an opportunity of witnessing , when we arose in the morning , a scene of such transcendent beauty as could only be rivalled ...
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... nature of a lie , and must be evil ; yet all the faculties of the mind may be devoted to some profitable use , and the imagination , as much as any of them , may be exercised in the cause of wisdom and virtue . Our Saviour taught by ...
... nature of a lie , and must be evil ; yet all the faculties of the mind may be devoted to some profitable use , and the imagination , as much as any of them , may be exercised in the cause of wisdom and virtue . Our Saviour taught by ...
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... nature and art in the world , we enjoyed a vast and beautiful prospect of the Bohemian mountains , of parts of the dominions of Prussia , and of the cities of Dresden and Meissen . This fortress , besides being the depôt of warlike ...
... nature and art in the world , we enjoyed a vast and beautiful prospect of the Bohemian mountains , of parts of the dominions of Prussia , and of the cities of Dresden and Meissen . This fortress , besides being the depôt of warlike ...
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... nature , pleasurable sensations greatly predominate over painful . He said , that it must be so , for as the tendency of pain is to disorganize , the disorganization of the whole living system must ensue if the balance lay on its side ...
... nature , pleasurable sensations greatly predominate over painful . He said , that it must be so , for as the tendency of pain is to disorganize , the disorganization of the whole living system must ensue if the balance lay on its side ...
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admirable apparition appear Athanasian Creed atheism beautiful believe Bible Bishop blessed Blumenbach body Brocken Brocken Spectre CASIMERE Christ Christian church Church of England Coleridge Coleridge's conversation Creed Davy death divine doctrine dream Elbingerode England English eternal exclaimed eyes fact faith Father favour feelings French Revolution German ghost Goslar Göttingen Harz heard heart heaven Hessian Holy honour human Jeremy Taylor Jesus Jesus College late lectures less letter light likewise living Lord Matilda mind morning mountain nature never night NIVERSITY of Gottingen object occasion opinion Parry party person Petrus Scriverius philosopher Phrenologists pleasure present Professor Ratzeburg reason recollection religion religious remarks respecting resurrection S. T. Coleridge Samuel Drew scarcely scene Scripture seemed Sir H sleep Socinianism soul spectre Spinozism spirit sublimity supposed table d'hôte thing thou thought tion tour travellers Trinity truth whilst whole Wolfenbuttel words
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Seite 253 - For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Seite 140 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Seite 62 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Seite 62 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Seite 80 - But the age of chivalry is gone! that of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever! !Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Seite 140 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Seite 90 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Seite 66 - By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung, As thitherward endeavouring, and upright Stood on my feet: about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these Creatures that lived and moved, and walked or flew; Birds on the branches warbling; ~a.ll things smiled; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
Seite 291 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power ? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Seite 98 - What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep ! How has expectation darkened into anxiety — anxiety into dread — and dread into despair ! Alas ! not one memento shall ever return for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known, is, that she sailed from her port, « and was never heard of more ! »...