...fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But oh ! each visitation...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. YH. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream ! I turn from you, and listen...

...fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But oh ! each visitation...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. VII. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, lleality's dark dream ! I turn from you, and...

...fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But oh ! each visitation...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul VII. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream ! I turn from you, and listen...

...I can, And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man, — This is my sole resource, my only plan ; Till that which suits...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." LETTER V. MY DEAR SIR, Dec. 13th, 1819. Accept my affectionate thanks ; and, in mine, conceive those...

...From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that \vhirli suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. Poet. Works, p. 181. The passage in the text has been more than once cited by those who cite nothing...

...think of what I needs must feel, But oh ! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. Reality's dark dream! I turn from you, and listen to the wind, Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around...

...mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth ; Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But ab ! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. Some resemblance may be traced between the thought in a part of this extract and Wordsworth's noble...

..." For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient all I can ; And haply Tiy abstruse research to steal, From my own nature, all...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." Such were, doubtless, the true and radical causes which, for the final twenty-four years of Coleridge's...

...must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From ray own nature all the natural man — This was my sole...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. VIL Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Eeality's dark dream ! I turn from you, and listen...

...feel, But to be still and patient all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal, From my mm, nature, all the natural man ; This was my sole resource,...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." Such were, doubtless, the true and radical causes which, for the final twenty-four years of Coleridge's...