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
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...afflictions bow me down to earth ; Nor c*re I that they rob me of my mirth: But 0 ! 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... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 374 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1876 - 654 pages
...entitled Dejection, stanza six, occurs the following passage : — " For not to think of what I needs mtmt feel, But to be still and patient all I can, And haply...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... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 268 pages
...me down to Earth — Nor care I, that they rob me of my Mirth; But O! each Visitation 240 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,... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth: Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth; My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think...research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — 90 This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...REJOINDER TO A CRITIC You may be right: "How can I dare to feel?" May be the only question I can pose, "And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man" My sole resource. And I do not suppose That others may not have a better plan. And yet I'll quote again,... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 164 pages
...(CPW i. 364). The metaphysical explanation reappears: For not to think of what I needs must feel, Mui to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse...steal From my own nature all the natural man — This w as my sole resource, my onh plan: Till that which snits a part infests the whole, And now is almost... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Literary Collections - 1996 - 476 pages
...think: TSE marked Defection 87-90 in his copy of Coleridge's Poetical Works (1907, Houghton Library): For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...research to steal From my own nature all the natural man i—2 feel . . . think . . . pen and ink: twelve days after his father's death, TSE wrote to his mother,... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 1018 pages
...dallied with distress . . . But now afflictions bow me down to earth: . . . each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. (82-86) Very possibly it was Coleridge's publishing of "Dejection" at this cruel juncture that determined... | |
 | Jonathan Holden - Poetry - 1999 - 180 pages
..."viper thoughts, that coil around my mind": 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 grown almost the habit of my... | |
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