The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Bind 2Harper & brothers, 1853 |
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Side 71 - not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary."—" 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
Side 481 - Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his childish thought; Whose high endeavors are an inward light That make the path before him always bright; Who doomed to go in company with pain, And fear and bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain
Side 451 - 1 But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day. Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us—cherish—and have power to make
Side 17 - men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth!—and even where it
Side 63 - of the misled Ararat, on which the ark of the hope of Europe and of civilization rested ! Even SO doth God protect us, if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power and deity : . Yet in themselves are nothing 1 One decree Spake laws to them, and
Side 63 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth: and
Side 451 - Of the eternal silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessnees, nor mad endeavor. Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy! Hence, in a season of calm weather,
Side 200 - heart's desire And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish— Were call'd upon to exercise their skill Not in Utopia, subterraneous fields. Or some secreted island. Heaven knows where. But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, the place where in the end We find our happiness, or not at all The peace of
Side 334 - Rabbi, didst thou not teach me that we must not be reluctant to restore that which was intrusted to our keeping ? See, the Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord !" " Blessed be the name of the Lord !" echoed Rabbi Meir, " and blessed be his name for thy sake too ! For well
Side 63 - ESSAY X. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men : and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as