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 which suits a part infects the whole,... Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Page 386by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1895 - 813 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Paul Youngquist - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 316 pages
...becomes for Coleridge the elixir of life. As early as 1802 Coleridge attests to its therapeutic powers: And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own...the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my... | |
 | Tod E. Jones - History - 2003 - 362 pages
...(1802): For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And happy by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man— This was my sole resource, my only plan. 72 "Dejection" is itself a witness to the fact that, although verse was still satisfying... | |
 | Deborah Forbes - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 260 pages
...An Ode"? The speaker laments that each affliction of his adult life Suspends what nature gave me at birth, My shaping spirit of imagination. For not to...the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.1... | |
 | Dick Heckstall-Smith, Pete Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 274 pages
...affliction bows me down to earth: Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth; But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth. My shaping spirit...what I needs must feel. But to be still and patient, ail I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This... | |
 | Leonora Leet - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2004 - 542 pages
...interpenetrates them. In defining the method of his poetic imagination, Coleridge said that he had need to be "still and patient, all I can; / And haply by...research to steal / From my own nature all the natural man."21 It is similar with the divine mind, most particularly with Chokhmah who, through stillness,... | |
 | Onno Oerlemans - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 268 pages
...the wind,' subtly alluding to Coleridge's key statement in 'Dejection' of his utterly failed desire 'not to think of what I needs must feel, / But to be still and patient, all I can.' By making himself perfectly empty ('nothing himself), Stevens's hypothetical perceiver is precisely... | |
 | Stan Smith - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 292 pages
...older Romantic and humanist ideas of the self. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' expresses an ambition 'haply by abstruse research to steal / From my own nature all the natural man', assuming that the end of all that intellectual effort will be the revelation of an essential and shared... | |
 | Sally West - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 222 pages
...'shaping spirit of Imagination' (82, 86), Coleridge articulates his response to this artistic depression: For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...all the natural Man This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole. And now is almost grown the habit of my... | |
 | Frederic Ewen - History - 2007 - 589 pages
...— never to be conquered — poetic sterility, also attributing it to his passion for philosophy: And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. Of... | |
 | Adam Sisman - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 540 pages
...they rob me of my Mirth; But O! each visitation * Presumably a mistranscription for 'Ere'. Suspends, what Nature gave me at my birth, My shaping Spirit of Imagination! I speak not now of those habitual Ills, That wear out Life, when two unequal Minds Meet in one House,... | |
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