The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Volume 1Derwent Coleridge 1863 |
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Derwent Coleridge. short and unconnected sentences are easily and instantly understood but it is equally true , that wanting all the cement of thought as well as of style , all the connections and ( if you will forgive so trivial a ...
Derwent Coleridge. short and unconnected sentences are easily and instantly understood but it is equally true , that wanting all the cement of thought as well as of style , all the connections and ( if you will forgive so trivial a ...
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... equally well accounted for by declaring the author unintelligible ; or that he should accuse his own inattention , when by half a dozen phrases of abuse , as " heavy stuff , metaphysical jargon , & c . , " he can at once excuse his ...
... equally well accounted for by declaring the author unintelligible ; or that he should accuse his own inattention , when by half a dozen phrases of abuse , as " heavy stuff , metaphysical jargon , & c . , " he can at once excuse his ...
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... equally appropriate prefer always that from the book which is least likely to have come into my readers ' hands . For I often please myself with the fancy , now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole 50 ...
... equally appropriate prefer always that from the book which is least likely to have come into my readers ' hands . For I often please myself with the fancy , now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole 50 ...
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... equally to literary , toleration : - " If it be said that in France there is liberty of conscience in part , it is also plain that while the hierarchy is standing , this liberty is falling , and that if ever it comes to pull down the ...
... equally to literary , toleration : - " If it be said that in France there is liberty of conscience in part , it is also plain that while the hierarchy is standing , this liberty is falling , and that if ever it comes to pull down the ...
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... equally , working to good and to evil . And were I the chooser , a dram of well - doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil- doing . For God , sure , esteems the growth and comple- tion of one ...
... equally , working to good and to evil . And were I the chooser , a dram of well - doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil- doing . For God , sure , esteems the growth and comple- tion of one ...
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Page 50 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 61 - Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 183 - And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Page 62 - 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 virtue, not a pure...
Page x - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies : where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.
Page 50 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 24 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 29 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon.
Page 220 - And dealt with whatsoever they found there As if they had within some lurking right To wield it ; they, too, who, of gentle mood, Had watched...
Page 220 - Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work Which then was going forward in her name ! Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, The beauty wore of promise, that which sets (As at some moment might not be unfelt Among the bowers of paradise itself) The budding rose above the rose full blown.