The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Band 1Derwent Coleridge 1863 |
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... possible of my fellow - creatures . ANTECEDENTLY to all history , and long glimmering through it as a holy tradition , there presents itself to our imagination an indefinite period , dateless as eternity ; a state rather than a time ...
... possible of my fellow - creatures . ANTECEDENTLY to all history , and long glimmering through it as a holy tradition , there presents itself to our imagination an indefinite period , dateless as eternity ; a state rather than a time ...
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... possible , which would require from a well- educated reader any energy of thought and voluntary abstraction . But attention , I confess , will be requisite throughout , except in the excursive and miscellaneous essays that will be found ...
... possible , which would require from a well- educated reader any energy of thought and voluntary abstraction . But attention , I confess , will be requisite throughout , except in the excursive and miscellaneous essays that will be found ...
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... possible that they should be remembered . - Nor is it less true , that those who confine their reading to such books dwarf their own faculties , and finally reduce their understandings to a deplorable imbecility : the fact you mention ...
... possible that they should be remembered . - Nor is it less true , that those who confine their reading to such books dwarf their own faculties , and finally reduce their understandings to a deplorable imbecility : the fact you mention ...
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... possible . Hitherto I have been employed in laying the founda- tion of my work . But the proper merit of a foundation is its massiveness and solidity . The conveniences and ornaments , the gilding and stucco work , the sunshine and ...
... possible . Hitherto I have been employed in laying the founda- tion of my work . But the proper merit of a foundation is its massiveness and solidity . The conveniences and ornaments , the gilding and stucco work , the sunshine and ...
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... possible in one mind , than it is for the same man to be at the same instant virtuous and vicious . Cognitio veritatis omnia falsa , si modo proferantur , etiam quæ prius inaudita erant , et dijudicare et subvertere idonea est ...
... possible in one mind , than it is for the same man to be at the same instant virtuous and vicious . Cognitio veritatis omnia falsa , si modo proferantur , etiam quæ prius inaudita erant , et dijudicare et subvertere idonea est ...
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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.