The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One VolumeThomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1840 - 546 pages |
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... less than his abilities clearly demonstrate him able to effect . 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 ...
... less than his abilities clearly demonstrate him able to effect . 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 ...
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... less fitted for a popular writer ; and , in com- dom and the rights of the people , now wrote with mon with his early connexions , Coleridge seems scorn of " mob - sycophants , " and of the " half - wit- to have had no fixed political ...
... less fitted for a popular writer ; and , in com- dom and the rights of the people , now wrote with mon with his early connexions , Coleridge seems scorn of " mob - sycophants , " and of the " half - wit- to have had no fixed political ...
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... less , that strenuous , firm , And with a natural gladness , he maintain'd The citadel unconquer'd , and in joy Was strong to follow the delightful Muse . For not a hidden Path , that to the Shades Of the beloved Parnassian forest leads ...
... less , that strenuous , firm , And with a natural gladness , he maintain'd The citadel unconquer'd , and in joy Was strong to follow the delightful Muse . For not a hidden Path , that to the Shades Of the beloved Parnassian forest leads ...
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... less to monstrous events ( though at the time that I composed the verses , somewhat more than twelve years ago , I was less averse to such subjects than at present ) , but from foding in it a striking proof of the possible effect on the ...
... less to monstrous events ( though at the time that I composed the verses , somewhat more than twelve years ago , I was less averse to such subjects than at present ) , but from foding in it a striking proof of the possible effect on the ...
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... less deep and A tale of less affright , And temper'd with delight , As Otway's self had framed the tender lay , " Tis of a little child Upon a lonesome wild , Not far from home , but she hath lost her way , And now moans low in bitter ...
... less deep and A tale of less affright , And temper'd with delight , As Otway's self had framed the tender lay , " Tis of a little child Upon a lonesome wild , Not far from home , but she hath lost her way , And now moans low in bitter ...
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Page 72 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Page 70 - And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 331 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 75 - I never saw aught like to them, Unless perchance it were "Brown skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf's young.
Page 76 - O sweeter than the marriage-feast, Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company! — To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Page 65 - Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air...
Page 46 - O struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars, Or when they climb the sky or when they sink...
Page 74 - Twas night, calm night, the Moon was high; The dead men stood together. All stood together on the deck, For a charnel-dungeon fitter: All fix'd on me their stony eyes, That in the Moon did glitter.
Page 75 - This seraph-band, each waved his hand: It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light; This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart.
Page 72 - See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more! Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel!