 In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed,...  The Philosophy of Sleep - Side 65af Robert Macnish - 1834 - 336 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Carl Abraham Daniel Fehrman - 1980 - 241 sider
...are concerned, rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the ground of any supposed poetic merits. In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in...thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall." The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of... | |
 | D. N. Perkins - 1981 - 328 sider
...preface in which Coleridge described how he had come to write the poem nearly twenty years before. In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in...thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall." The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of... | |
 | Brewster Ghiselin - 1985 - 278 sider
...are concerned, rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the ground of any supposed poetic merits. In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in...thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall." The Author continued This account of the composition of "Kubla Khan" should... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 sider
...indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effect of which he fell asleep in his chair at the 5 moment that he was reading the following sentence,...thereunto: and thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall. ' ' The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least... | |
 | H. J. Eysenck - 1995 - 360 sider
...that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in "Purchas's Pilgrimate": 'Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built,...thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.' The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of... | |
 | Andre Bernard, Clifton Fadiman - 2000 - 808 sider
...chair at the moment of reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in Purchas' Pilgrimage: 'Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace...thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.' The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2001 - 368 sider
...Pilgrimage. The book is about exotic locals, in which one passage reads "Here the Khan Kubla commended a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto....thus ten miles of fertile ground were enclosed with a wall."26 Then, Coleridge recalls, he fell asleep and the poem appeared in his mind, as he describes... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 260 sider
...in the Moonlight!' Page 177: KUBLA KHAN: Coleridge's own account of the poem's origin is as follows: In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in...thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall'. The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep at least of the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 260 sider
...In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely form-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines...thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall'. The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep at least of the... | |
 | Barry Spurr, Lloyd Cameron - 2000 - 332 sider
...a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep n his chair at the moment that he was reading the following...thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.' The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of... | |
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