Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volumen1,Tema 1W. Pickering, 1847 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 70
Página xx
... seems spontaneous and is more like rest than labour . This is the diffi- culty with which introducers of new thought have to contend ; the minds that are to receive these acces- sions must themselves , in order to their reception of ...
... seems spontaneous and is more like rest than labour . This is the diffi- culty with which introducers of new thought have to contend ; the minds that are to receive these acces- sions must themselves , in order to their reception of ...
Página xxi
... seem least re- mote from it . To say , with the writer in Blackwood , that he stopped short in the process of unfolding a theory of the imagination , merely because he had come to the end of all that Schelling had taught con- cerning it ...
... seem least re- mote from it . To say , with the writer in Blackwood , that he stopped short in the process of unfolding a theory of the imagination , merely because he had come to the end of all that Schelling had taught con- cerning it ...
Página xxiii
... seem suitable to the work in which he was engaged . Of this effort he felt incapable , and the letter was devised in order to enable him to print what he had already written with- out farther trouble . But he still cherished the inten ...
... seem suitable to the work in which he was engaged . Of this effort he felt incapable , and the letter was devised in order to enable him to print what he had already written with- out farther trouble . But he still cherished the inten ...
Página xxix
... seems to shew , that he had not formed into a regular composition any identical views of his own before he read that author's works ; 15 14 14 See , in the ninth chapter of this work , the passage begin- ning , " We had studied in the ...
... seems to shew , that he had not formed into a regular composition any identical views of his own before he read that author's works ; 15 14 14 See , in the ninth chapter of this work , the passage begin- ning , " We had studied in the ...
Página xxx
... seems to admit Mr. Coleridge to have been ? He studied in Germany in 1798 , and Schelling's pamphlet was published in 1806. The writer cannot comprehend how Mr. C. could take upon him to say , " that co - incidence only was possible ...
... seems to admit Mr. Coleridge to have been ? He studied in Germany in 1798 , and Schelling's pamphlet was published in 1806. The writer cannot comprehend how Mr. C. could take upon him to say , " that co - incidence only was possible ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Antinomianism appear Archdeacon Hare Aristotle baptism believe Biographia Literaria borrowed called Catholic cause chap character Christ Christian Church Coleridge Coleridge's contained criticism denied divine doctrine edition Eucharist evidence expressed faith fancy Father feeling genius German grace habit heart Hobbes Holy honour human Hume ideas imagination intellectual Irenæus justifying language latter least less literary Luther Lyrical Ballads Maasz means ment merits metaphysical mind moral nature never notion object opinions original outward Pantheism party Parva Naturalia passage perhaps persons philosophy poems poet poetic poetry present principles quæ racter reader reason reference religion religious remarks Review S. T. Coleridge salvation Schelling Schelling's Scripture seems sense shew Socinianism Solifidian sonnets soul speaks spirit suppose sure teaching Tertullian things thought tion Transcendental Idealism transubstantiation treatise trine true truth ward law whole words Wordsworth writer καὶ
Pasajes populares
Página clxxvii - My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan; Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página clxxi - I learned from him, that poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes.
Página 53 - ... the original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it the depth and height of the ideal world around forms, incidents, and situations, of which, for the common view, custom had bedimmed all the lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the dew drops.
Página 55 - You may conceive the difference in kind between the Fancy and the Imagination in this way, — that if the check of the senses and the reason were withdrawn, the first would become delirium, and the last mania. The Fancy brings together images which have no connection natural or moral, but are yoked together by the poet by means of some accidental coincidence...
Página 55 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Página 49 - Descriptive Sketches; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced.
Página 5 - Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough : — We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff! " I, too, will have my kings that take From me the sign of life and death : Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath.
Página 22 - ... with the name of reading. Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving phantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the...
Página clxxxv - ... poets sacrificed the passion, and passionate flow of poetry, to the subtleties of intellect and to the starts of wit; the moderns to the glare and 'glitter of a perpetual yet broken and heterogeneous imagery, or rather to an amphibious something, made up, half of image and half of abstract* meaning. The one sacrificed the heart to the head, the other both heart and head to point and drapery.
Página 53 - Repeated meditations led me first to suspect, (and a more intimate analysis of the human faculties, their appropriate marks, functions, and effects matured my conjecture into full conviction,) that fancy and imagination were two distinct and widely different faculties, instead of being, according to the general belief, either two names with one meaning, or, at furthest, the lower and higher degree of one and the same power.