The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Band 1Derwent Coleridge 1863 |
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... understanding and imagination . Actuated by this impulse , the writer wishes , in the following essays , to convey not instruction merely , but fundamental instruction ; not so much to show the reader this or that fact , as to kindle ...
... understanding and imagination . Actuated by this impulse , the writer wishes , in the following essays , to convey not instruction merely , but fundamental instruction ; not so much to show the reader this or that fact , as to kindle ...
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... understandings to a deplorable imbecility : the fact you mention , and which I shall hereafter make use of , is a fair instance and a striking illustration . Like idle morning visitors , the brisk and breathless periods hurry in and ...
... understandings to a deplorable imbecility : the fact you mention , and which I shall hereafter make use of , is a fair instance and a striking illustration . Like idle morning visitors , the brisk and breathless periods hurry in and ...
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... understanding . A lazy half - attention amounts to a mental yawn . Where then a subject , that demands thought , has been thought- fully treated , and with an exact and patient derivation from its principles , we must be willing to ...
... understanding . A lazy half - attention amounts to a mental yawn . Where then a subject , that demands thought , has been thought- fully treated , and with an exact and patient derivation from its principles , we must be willing to ...
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... understanding , yet the bitterness of personal crimination will resolve itself into naked assertion . We are , therefore , authorized by experience , and justified on the principle of self - defence and by the law of fair retali- ation ...
... understanding , yet the bitterness of personal crimination will resolve itself into naked assertion . We are , therefore , authorized by experience , and justified on the principle of self - defence and by the law of fair retali- ation ...
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... understanding ; and above all while I approve myself , alike in praise and in blame , in close reasoning and in impassioned declama- tion , a steady friend to the two best and surest friends of all men , truth and honesty ; I will not ...
... understanding ; and above all while I approve myself , alike in praise and in blame , in close reasoning and in impassioned declama- tion , a steady friend to the two best and surest friends of all men , truth and honesty ; I will not ...
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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.