Early Recollections: Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, During His Long Residence in Bristol, المجلد 1Longman, Rees & Company, 1837 - 325 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 246 - I speak with heartfelt sincerity, and (I think) unblinded judgment, when I tell you that I feel myself a little man by his side, and yet do not think myself the less man than I formerly thought myself.
الصفحة 277 - I have a thorough aversion to his character, and a very moderate admiration of his genius : he is great in so little a way. To be a poet is to be the man, not a petty portion of occasional low passion worked up in a permanent form of humanity. Shakspeare has thrust such rubbishly feelings into a corner, — the dark dusky heart of Don John, in the
الصفحة 23 - So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
الصفحة 35 - I should have encouraged a propensity to forgery, which is not the talent most wanting culture in the present age. All of the house of forgery are relations ; and though it is just to Chatterton's memory to say, that his poverty never made him claim kindred with the richest, or more enriching branches, yet his ingenuity in counterfeiting styles, and I believe, hands, might easily have led him to those more facile imitations of prose, promissory notes.
الصفحة 22 - Theirs is not that twilight of political knowledge which gives us just light enough to place one foot before the other ; as they advance the scene still opens upon them, and they press right onward with a vast and various landscape of existence around them.
الصفحة 27 - that these Lectures are intended for two classes of men, Christians and Infidels ;— the former, that they may be able to give a reason for the hope that is in them ; — the latter, that they may not determine against Christianity from arguments applicable to its corruptions only.
الصفحة 188 - Anatomy ; Medicine ; then the mind of man ; then the minds of men, in all Travels, Voyages, and Histories. So I would spend ten years ; the next five in the composition of the poem, and the five last in the correction of it. So would I write, haply not unhearing of that divine and nightly-whispering voice, which speaks to mighty minds, of predestinated garlands, starry and unwithering.* God love you.
الصفحة 274 - Pekin ; from the pre-occupation of our minds, " poor things," would have been our only reply, with anguish put off till the morrow. While thus elevated in the universal current of our feelings, Mrs. Coleridge approached, with her fine Hartley ; we all smiled, but the father's eye beamed transcendental joy !
الصفحة 320 - ... followed the announcement, in which our host heartily joined. This was nothing. We had plenty of other good things, and while crunching our succulents, and munching our crusts, we pitied the far worse condition of those, perchance as hungry as ourselves, who were forced to dine, alone, off œther.
الصفحة 20 - Southey chose History. On examining my old papers, I find most of the notices or prospectuses relating to these subjects. Mr. Coleridge's first two lectures were delivered in the Corn Market in Wine-Street. Mr. Coleridge's next two lectures were delivered the latter end of February, 1795, and afterwards were thrown into a small pamphlet, printed under the title of " Condones ad Populum, or Addresses to the People.