The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Band 1Derwent Coleridge 1863 |
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... least must have been my persuasion or the present volumes must have been wittingly written to no purpose . If I be- lieved our nature fettered to all this wretchedness of head and heart by an absolute and innate necessity , at least by ...
... least must have been my persuasion or the present volumes must have been wittingly written to no purpose . If I be- lieved our nature fettered to all this wretchedness of head and heart by an absolute and innate necessity , at least by ...
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... least persuade themselves that they pursue ; but whether a change might not be hazarded . of the usual order , in which periodical writers have in general attempted to convey them . Having myself ex- perienced that no delight either in ...
... least persuade themselves that they pursue ; but whether a change might not be hazarded . of the usual order , in which periodical writers have in general attempted to convey them . Having myself ex- perienced that no delight either in ...
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... least attractive essays must appear in the beginning , and thus subject me to the necessity of demanding effort or soliciting patience in that part of the work , where it was most my interest to secure the confidence of my readers by ...
... least attractive essays must appear in the beginning , and thus subject me to the necessity of demanding effort or soliciting patience in that part of the work , where it was most my interest to secure the confidence of my readers by ...
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... least unable to recollect a single instance , either in history or in my personal experience , of a preponderance of injurious consequences from the publication of any truth , under the observance of the moral conditions above stated ...
... least unable to recollect a single instance , either in history or in my personal experience , of a preponderance of injurious consequences from the publication of any truth , under the observance of the moral conditions above stated ...
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... always that from the book which is least likely to have come into my readers ' hands . For I often please myself with the fancy , now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole 50 59 THE FRIEND .
... always that from the book which is least likely to have come into my readers ' hands . For I often please myself with the fancy , now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole 50 59 THE FRIEND .
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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.