...depict a comparable enclosing in the reciprocal relationship between God and child, teacher and pupil: "Great universal Teacher! he shall mould / Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask" (11. 63-64). The comforting enwrapping of chiasmus is here matched by the comfort of tautology: God...

...solemn culmination of Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight": so shall thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language which...doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. Parallel syntax is often arranged in ascending sequences, a figure known as climax (technically "auxesis"...

...that Hartley will be brought up to be influenced by nature and will see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language,...doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. The importance given to nature here is clear, but the reference to God is more than perfunctory; indeed...

...distinguish between God and his Creation), but came very close in the Unitarian God of Frost at Midnight, who "from eternity doth teach / Himself in all, and all things in Himself" (1798 text, lines 66-7). Keats, though he didn't apparently know Biographia Literaria, did know Coleridge's...

...thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God 60 Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all,...ask. Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, 65 Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt...

...shores And mountain crags: so shall thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible 60 Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters, who...things in himself. Great universal Teacher! He shall mold Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask. 65 Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether...

...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,...things in himself. Great universal Teacher! he shall mold Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask. Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the...

...Coleridge, and in fact an unforgettable image in one of the most beautiful passages in all his poetry. Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether...earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Between the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch Smokes in the...

...blessing on his son.'9 Hartley learns to interpret the 'shapes and sounds intelligible' of God's language, who 'from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself (ll. 61—2). The child reflects on and in a landscape which is itself divinely reflective; and his...

...the world of nature, Coleridge tells his baby son that so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language,...eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself.150 For Coleridge, the universe is the 'choral echo' of 'the great I AM'.151 As Richard Holmes...