 | 1844 - 784 pages
...the most righteous contempt. I am grieved that you never met Coleridge : all other men whom I bare known are mere children to him, and yet all is palsied...author was capable of executing the greatest works.' — Vol. i., p. 455. Here we must close our extracts from this interesting correspondence, which is... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 618 pages
...word does as well, ought to be hung, drawn and quartered for high treason against his mother-tongue. ' I am grieved that you never met Coleridge : all other...friends to the world ; yet many of his scattered poems arc such, that a man of feeling will see that the author was capable of executing the greatest works.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1844 - 734 pages
...subject, of which the first part, if he ever have health and stability enough to produce any thing, will be the death-blow of Hobbes, Locke, and Hume...author was capable of executing the greatest works," &c. Mr. Southey writes to his friend on the latter mentioning that he was going to modernize or refashion... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...word does as well, ought to be hung, drawn and quartered for high-treason against his mother-tongue. ' I am grieved that you never met Coleridge ; all other...author was capable of executing the greatest works. 1 1 begin to hunger and thirst after Borrodale and Derwentwater. You undervalue lakes and mountains... | |
 | English essays - 1844 - 752 pages
...subject, of which the first part, if he ever have health and stability enough to produce any thing, will be the death-blow of Hobbes, Locke, and Hume...strength. He will leave nothing behind him to justify tbe opinion of his friends to the world ;| yet many of his scattered poems are such, that a man of... | |
 | Libraries - 1887 - 548 pages
...SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. [IN TWO PARTS.— I. THE MAN] "I AM grieved," said Son they, " that you uever met Coleridge ; all other men whom I have ever known...is palsied by a total want of moral strength." "He is like a lump of coal, rich with gas," said Walter Scott, "which lies expending itself in putt's and... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Critics - 1887 - 188 pages
...LIFE OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. > CHAPTER I. " T AM grieved," said Southey, " that you never met J- Coleridge. All other men whom I have ever known are...is palsied by a total want of moral strength." " He is like a lump of coal rich with gas," said Scott, "which lies expending itself in puffs and gleams,... | |
 | John H. Lloyd (of Highgate.) - Highgate (London, England) - 1888 - 552 pages
...was always a poet — in all his moods, and they were many, inspired." "I am grieved," said Southey, "that you never met Coleridge. All other men whom...is palsied by a total want of moral strength." " He is like a lump of coal, rich with gas," said Scott, " which lies expending itself in puffs and gleams,... | |
 | William John Hardy, F. E. Robinson, William Paley Baildon - Berkshire (England) - 1903 - 450 pages
...lived and died the poet Coleridge, " the ideal man of genius," of whom Southey said "all other men I have ever known are mere children to him, and yet...all is palsied by a total want of moral strength." It was, indeed, owing to this weakness that Coleridge first took up his abode at Highgate, voluntarily... | |
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I am grieved that you never met Coleridge ; all other men whom I have ever known are mere children to him, and yet all is palsied by a total want of moral strength. 
