 | 1845 - 816 pages
...Dejection, stanza six, occurs the following passage : " For not to think of what I noods must feeU But to be still and patient all I can ; And haply by abttruse research to tteal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...the twining vine, And frniU, and foliage, not my own, seem'd mine. fiat now afflictions how me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth, Bnt oh ! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, Mj duping spirit of Imagination.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care 1 that they rob me of my mirth. Rut oh ! each visitation Swpend» he s 1 needs must feel, Rut to be Mill and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to «leal... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, scern'd mine. But now' affliction» bow me down r'U, she unbound The cincture from beneath Suípende what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...the twining vine, 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,...all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is... | |
 | 1835 - 742 pages
...Coleridge's prose works, without remembering his own affecting poem : " For not to th ink of what 1 needs must feel, But to be still and patient all I...steal From my own nature all the natural man — This wa» my sola resource, my only plan : 'l ili that which suits a part infects the whole, And now u almost... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 286 pages
...conveying to you, with good effect, the results of my experience. " But seared thoughts now bow me down to earth, Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth....steal From my own nature all the natural man, — This is my sole resource, my only plan ; Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost... | |
 | 1836 - 758 pages
...m< Uphysical studies, to dull, if possible, the sense of pain. " But now afflictions bow me to the earth, Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth; But,...must feel, But to be still and patient all I can, And Imply by abstruse research to staid, From my own nature, all the natural man; This was my sole resource... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 270 pages
...twining vine, And fruits and foliage, not my own, seemed mine:" " But seared thoughts now bow me down to earth, Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth....imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, From my own nature all the natural man,— " But to be still and patient all I can, And haply by abstruse... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 274 pages
...have some hope of conveying to you, with good effect, the results of my experience. " But seared thoug Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth. But, oh!...me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination. And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man,— This is my sole... | |
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... my path was rough, This joy within me dallied with distress, And all misfortunes were but as the stuff Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness: For hope grew round me, like the twining vine, 80 And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. 
