Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and OpinionsW. Pickering, 1847 - 804 páginas |
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... line , but because his energies for regular composition in any line were deserting him , at least for a time . It is suggested , that " interspersed throughout the works of Schelling , glimpses and indications are to be found of some ...
... line , but because his energies for regular composition in any line were deserting him , at least for a time . It is suggested , that " interspersed throughout the works of Schelling , glimpses and indications are to be found of some ...
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... lines save with the plough across the field , have all the geometry folded up in their minds that Euclid unfolded in his book ; Kant's doctrine of pure reason is a web woven out of stuff that is in every man's brain ; and the simplest ...
... lines save with the plough across the field , have all the geometry folded up in their minds that Euclid unfolded in his book ; Kant's doctrine of pure reason is a web woven out of stuff that is in every man's brain ; and the simplest ...
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... line . The wasps and baser flies of literature neither collect juice nor make honey ; they only buzz and sting , flitting around the well spread board , to which they have never furnished one wholesome morsel , to the disturb- ance of ...
... line . The wasps and baser flies of literature neither collect juice nor make honey ; they only buzz and sting , flitting around the well spread board , to which they have never furnished one wholesome morsel , to the disturb- ance of ...
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... read Samson Agonistes , still he may have thought that he should have written the line even if he had not . 10 Biog . Lit. , vol . 1 , chap . ix . 11 Ib . he " the most awful of subjects for the most important INTRODUCTION . 17.
... read Samson Agonistes , still he may have thought that he should have written the line even if he had not . 10 Biog . Lit. , vol . 1 , chap . ix . 11 Ib . he " the most awful of subjects for the most important INTRODUCTION . 17.
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... line of thought with him — was in search of what Schelling discovered- before he met with his writings ; and on this point it is to be re- marked , that the writer in Blackwood , though he professes to give the whole of Mr. Coleridge's ...
... line of thought with him — was in search of what Schelling discovered- before he met with his writings ; and on this point it is to be re- marked , that the writer in Blackwood , though he professes to give the whole of Mr. Coleridge's ...
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Página 151 - 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, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página 202 - For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Página 155 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 378 - The Fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space ; and blended with, and modified by that empirical phenomenon of the will, which we express by the word choice.
Página 146 - English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene, were all an abomination to him.
Página 378 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it Struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Página 378 - The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Página 262 - Mystics acted in no slight degree to prevent my mind from being imprisoned within the outline of any single dogmatic system. They contributed to keep alive the heart in the head ; gave me an indistinct, yet stirring and working presentiment, that all the products of the mere reflective faculty partook of death...
Página 165 - Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough : — We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff! " I, too, will have my kings that take From me the sign of life and death : Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath.
Página 234 - A case of this kind occurred in a Roman Catholic town in Germany a year or two before my arrival at Gottingen,i3 and had not then ceased to be a frequent subject of conversation. A young woman of four or five and twenty, who could neither read nor write...