Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...Harper & Brothers, 1835 - Critics |
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... person's name is introduced , whether for praise or for blame , ex- cept on literary or political grounds of common notoriety . Upon the justice of the remarks here published , it would be out of place in me to say any thing ; and a ...
... person's name is introduced , whether for praise or for blame , ex- cept on literary or political grounds of common notoriety . Upon the justice of the remarks here published , it would be out of place in me to say any thing ; and a ...
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... persons complain that they could get no answer to a question from Cole- ridge . The truth is , he answered , or meant to answer , so fully , that the querist should have no second question to ask . In nine cases out of ten he saw the ...
... persons complain that they could get no answer to a question from Cole- ridge . The truth is , he answered , or meant to answer , so fully , that the querist should have no second question to ask . In nine cases out of ten he saw the ...
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... persons knew much of it in any thing below the surface ; scarcely three or four ever got to understand it in all its marvellous completeness . Mere personal familiarity with this extraordinary man did not put you in possession of him ...
... persons knew much of it in any thing below the surface ; scarcely three or four ever got to understand it in all its marvellous completeness . Mere personal familiarity with this extraordinary man did not put you in possession of him ...
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... person who professed or showed that he had read the " Friend " or any of his other books . And I have no doubt that had he lived to complete his great work on " Philosophy reconciled with Christian Religion , " he would without scruple ...
... person who professed or showed that he had read the " Friend " or any of his other books . And I have no doubt that had he lived to complete his great work on " Philosophy reconciled with Christian Religion , " he would without scruple ...
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... person , man or woman , besides Mr. Coleridge himself — I say nothing . Let me in silent wonder pass them by on the other side . I wish nothing but well to the writer . But even had I any in- terest in his punishment , what could be ...
... person , man or woman , besides Mr. Coleridge himself — I say nothing . Let me in silent wonder pass them by on the other side . I wish nothing but well to the writer . But even had I any in- terest in his punishment , what could be ...
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Page 181 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Page 104 - And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witness against thee? But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
Page 181 - How seldom, friend, a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains ! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains.
Page 39 - I think Wordsworth possessed more of the genius of a great philosophic poet than any man I ever knew, or, as I believe, has existed in England since Milton ; but it seems to me that he ought never to have abandoned the contemplative position, which is peculiarly, perhaps I might say exclusively, fitted for him. His proper title is, Spectator ab extra.
Page 111 - I told her that in my own judgement the poem had too much ; and that the only, or chief fault, if I might say so, was the obtrusion of the moral sentiment so openly on the reader as a principle or cause of action in a work of such pure imagination. It ought to have had no inore moral than the Arabian Nights...
Page xi - Coleridge, to many people, and often I have heard the complaint, seemed to wander ; and he seemed then to wander the most when, in fact, his resistance to the wandering instinct was greatest — viz., when the compass and huge circuit, by which his illustrations moved, travelled farthest into remote regions before they began to revolve. Long before this coming round commenced, most people had lost him, and naturally enough supposed that he had lost himself. They continued to admire the separate beauty...
Page 119 - ... taking you through the valleys between: in fact, his work is little else but a disguised collection of all the splendid anecdotes which he could find in any book concerning any persons or nations from the Antonines to the capture of Constantinople. When I read a chapter in Gibbon...
Page xxvii - In this instance, as in the dramatic lectures of Schlegel to which I have before alluded, from the same motive of self-defence against the charge of plagiarism, many of the most striking resemblances, indeed all the main and fundamental ideas, were born and matured in my mind before I had ever seen a single page of the German Philosopher...
Page 39 - IV. Forgive me, Freedom ! O forgive those dreams ! I hear thy voice, I hear thy loud lament, From bleak Helvetia's icy cavern sent — I hear thy groans upon her blood-stained streams ! Heroes, that for your peaceful country perished, And ye that, fleeing, spot your mountain-snows...
Page 110 - The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more ; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault. In the very best styles, as Southey's, you read page after page, understanding the author perfectly, without once taking notice of the medium of communication ; it is as if he had been speaking to you all the while.