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
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...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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