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
 | Great Britain - 1867 - 972 pages
...mental tight;" perhaps feeling within himself as Coleridge did in the days of hi« " Dejection," — " For not to think of what I needs must feel. But to be still and patient all I can, And haply by absiruee research, to steal From my own nature all the natural man ; This was my sole resource mj only... | |
 | Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 pages
...afflictions bow 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 of imagination. # " * * * # Reality's dark dream! I turn from you, and listen to the wind, Hence, viper thoughts, that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 206 pages
...afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But oh 1 each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit...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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 354 pages
...himself in the profoundest abstractions, from life and human sensibilities. Bear witness his own lines : For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...all the natural man ; This was my sole resource, my only plan, Coleridge's own account of himself, at a period of disappointment in life, and with life,... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Ethics - 1872 - 432 pages
...Keswick in 1802, he laments the decay within himself of the shaping imagination, and says, that . . . ' 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, And now is almost grown the habit of my... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Philosophy - 1873 - 744 pages
...of that course are expressed with the bitterness of self-reproach in his ode on Drjecticm — " So not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be...steal From my own nature all the natural man. This was rny sole resource, my only plan, Till what befits a part infects the whole, And now has almost grown... | |
 | Mary Ann Reynolds Page - Europe - 1873 - 226 pages
...afflictions bow me down to earth, Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; But O, each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination." But this sad change never came in her experience. Rather, it seems as though each visitation, instead... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1874 - 396 pages
...bow me dowu 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 470 pages
...bow me dov.-n 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...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...afflictions bow me down to earth ; Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth. But O ! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit...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... | |
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