 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...thing, obstinately refusing to appear from it So that, most times, you felt logically lost ; swainped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious vocables,...spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world.' Coleridge's irresolution shewed itself in his gait : in walking, he rather shuffled than decisively... | |
 | Fashion - 742 pages
...or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing to appear from it. So that, most times, you felt logically lost; swamped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious...pumped into, whether you consent or not, can in the long-run be exhilarating to no creature ; how eloquent soever the flood of utterance that M descending.... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing to appear from it. So that, most times, you felt logically lost, swamped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious...spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world. The caricature from which this is an extract, and by which, probably, Coleridge is best known to the... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 426 pages
...recognisable, — ' Our intervlew lasted for thrce hours, during which lie talked two hours and thrcequarters.' To sit as a passive bucket and be pumped into, whether you consent or not, can, in the long-run, be exhilarating to no ereature, how eloquent socver the flood of utteranee that is deseending.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, English - 1851 - 362 pages
...or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing to appear from it. So that, most times, you felt logically lost ; swamped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious...pumped into, whether you consent or not, can in the long-run be exhilarating to no creature ; how eloquent soever the flood of utterance that is descending.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 396 pages
...or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing to appear from it. So that, most times, you felt logically lost ; swamped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious...pumped into, whether you consent or not, can in the long-run be exhilarating to no creature ; how eloquent soever the flood of utterance that is descending.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 362 pages
...to appear from it. So that, most times, you felt logically lost ; swamped near to drowning in tliis tide of ingenious vocables, spreading out boundless...pumped into, whether you consent or not, can in the long-run be exhilarating to no creature ; how eloquent soever the flood of utterance that is descending.... | |
 | 1852 - 528 pages
...any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing to appeal from it." As Carlyle truly remarks, " to sit as a passive bucket and be pumped into, whether...can in the long run be exhilarating to no creature." Hazlitt said of Coleridge, " Excellent talker, very — if you let him start from no premises and come... | |
 | 1852 - 526 pages
...earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing to appear from it: so that most times you felt logically lost, swamped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious...vocables, spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world.J A refined and often sublime mysticism was the cunning of his right hand, the very lock of his... | |
 | 1852 - 598 pages
...as he rolled along. No talk, in his century or in any other, could bo more surprising. »а******* " To sit as a passive bucket, and be pumped into, whether you consent or not, can in the long-run be exhilarating to no creature ; how eloquent soever the flood of utterance that is descending.... | |
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... regurgitations like a lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay, often in logical intelligibility; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing to appear from it. So that, most times, you... 
