The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Band 1Derwent Coleridge 1863 |
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... better or wiser . But it is with dulness as with obscurity . It may be positive , and the author's fault ; but it may likewise be relative , and if the author has presented his bill of fare at the portal , the reader has himself only to ...
... better or wiser . But it is with dulness as with obscurity . It may be positive , and the author's fault ; but it may likewise be relative , and if the author has presented his bill of fare at the portal , the reader has himself only to ...
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... better thereby , I class among the gratifications of mere curiosity , whether it be sought for in a light novel or a grave history . We may therefore omit the word information , as included either in amusement or in- struction . The ...
... better thereby , I class among the gratifications of mere curiosity , whether it be sought for in a light novel or a grave history . We may therefore omit the word information , as included either in amusement or in- struction . The ...
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... better adapted . But my main anchor was the hope , that when circumstances gradually enabled me to adopt the ordinary means of making the publication generally known , there might be found throughout the kingdom a sufficient number of ...
... better adapted . But my main anchor was the hope , that when circumstances gradually enabled me to adopt the ordinary means of making the publication generally known , there might be found throughout the kingdom a sufficient number of ...
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... better thing under the sun , than to eat , and to drink , and to be merry . There is one event unto all : the living know they shall die , but the dead know not any thing , neither have they any more a reward . * But he who should ...
... better thing under the sun , than to eat , and to drink , and to be merry . There is one event unto all : the living know they shall die , but the dead know not any thing , neither have they any more a reward . * But he who should ...
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... better than bareness . Having thus determined the nature and conditions of a right notion , it remains to consider the circumstances which tend to render the communication of it imprac- ticable , and oblige us of course to abstain from ...
... better than bareness . Having thus determined the nature and conditions of a right notion , it remains to consider the circumstances which tend to render the communication of it imprac- ticable , and oblige us of course to abstain from ...
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Seite 58 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Seite 69 - Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Seite 191 - And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Seite 70 - That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Seite xviii - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies : where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.
Seite 58 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Seite 32 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Seite 37 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon.
Seite 228 - And dealt with whatsoever they found there As if they had within some lurking right To wield it ; they, too, who, of gentle mood, Had watched...
Seite 228 - Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work Which then was going forward in her name ! Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, The beauty wore of promise, that which sets (As at some moment might not be unfelt Among the bowers of paradise itself) The budding rose above the rose full blown.