 I became very vain, and despised most of the boys that were at all near my own age, and before I was eight years old I was a character. Sensibility, imagination, vanity, sloth, and feelings of deep and bitter contempt for almost all who traversed the...  Hogg's Instructor - Page 1291852Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 462 pages
...I may truly say, a memory and understanding forced into almost unnatural ripeness, I was flattered and wondered at by all the old women. And so I became...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest. " From October 1778 to 1779. That which I began to be from three to six, I continued to be from six... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 546 pages
...I may truly say, a memory and understanding forced into almost unnatural ripeness, I was flattered and wondered at by all the old women. And so I became...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest." — Biographia Literaria, Vol. n., p. 320. Well might he say to Mr. Poole, to whom, in 1797, he addressed... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 550 pages
...I may truly say, a memory and understanding forced into almost unnatural ripeness, I was flattered and wondered at by all the old women. And so I became...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest." — Biographia Literaria, Vol. 1i., p. 320. Well might he say to Mr. Poole, to whom, in 1797, he addressed... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 380 pages
...I may truly say, a memory and understanding forced into almost unnatural ripeness, I was flattered and wondered at by all the old women. And so I became...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest. Homer to me. Frank had a violent love of beating mo ; but whenever that was superseded by any humor... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 380 pages
...all the old women. And so I became very vain, and despised most of the boys that were at all near mv own age, and before I was eight years old. I was a...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest. " From October, 1778, to 1779. That which I began to be from three to six, I continued to be from six... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1852 - 874 pages
...of the boys that were at all near my own age, and before I was eight years old I was a cluiranter. Sensibility, imagination, vanity, sloth, and feelings...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest. Homer to me. Frank had a violent love of beating me ; but whenever that was superseded by any humor... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 764 pages
...I may truly say, a memory and understanding forced into almost unnatural ripeness, I was flattered and wondered at by all the old women. And so I became...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest. " From October, 1778, to 1779. That which I began to be from three to six, I continued to be from six... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 760 pages
...so I became very vain, and despised most of the boys that were at all near my own age, and beforfe I was eight years old I was a character. Sensibility,...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest. " From October, 1778, to 1779. That which I began to be from three to six, I continued to be from six... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pages
...I may truly say, a memory and understanding forced into almost unnatural ripeness, I was flattered and wondered at by all the old women. And so I became...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest." * It appears that his father, simple-minded as he was, recognized the peculiar gifts of the child of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...I may truly say, a memory and understanding forced into almost unnatural ripeness, I was flattered and wondered at by all the old women. And so I became...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest. " From October, 1778, to 1779. That which I began to be from three to six, I continued to be from six... | |
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