The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Volume 1Derwent Coleridge 1863 |
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... of the higher circles of society ; of some trusty guide of blind fashion ; some pleasant analyst of taste , as it exists both in the palate and the * Essays . I. Of Truth . - Ed . soul ; some living gauge and mete - wand of 6 THE FRIEND .
... of the higher circles of society ; of some trusty guide of blind fashion ; some pleasant analyst of taste , as it exists both in the palate and the * Essays . I. Of Truth . - Ed . soul ; some living gauge and mete - wand of 6 THE FRIEND .
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Derwent Coleridge. soul ; some living gauge and mete - wand of past and present genius . But alas ! my former studies would still have left a wrong bias ! If instead of perplexing my common sense with the flights of Plato , and of ...
Derwent Coleridge. soul ; some living gauge and mete - wand of past and present genius . But alas ! my former studies would still have left a wrong bias ! If instead of perplexing my common sense with the flights of Plato , and of ...
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... living conviction , and took their place among the realities of my being . On some wide common or open heath , peopled with ant - hills , during some one of the gray cloudy days of late autumn , many of my readers may have noticed the ...
... living conviction , and took their place among the realities of my being . On some wide common or open heath , peopled with ant - hills , during some one of the gray cloudy days of late autumn , many of my readers may have noticed the ...
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... living . Of what value indeed , to a sane mind , are the likings or dislikings of one man , grounded on the mere assertions of another ? Opinions formed from opinions - what are they , but clouds sailing under clouds , which impress ...
... living . Of what value indeed , to a sane mind , are the likings or dislikings of one man , grounded on the mere assertions of another ? Opinions formed from opinions - what are they , but clouds sailing under clouds , which impress ...
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... living know they shall die , but the dead know not any thing , neither have they any more a reward . * But he who should repeat these words , with this assurance , to an ignorant man in the hour of his temptation , lingering at the door ...
... living know they shall die , but the dead know not any thing , neither have they any more a reward . * But he who should repeat these words , with this assurance , to an ignorant man in the hour of his temptation , lingering at the door ...
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Page 58 - 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 69 - 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 191 - 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 70 - 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 xviii - 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 58 - 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 32 - 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 37 - 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 228 - 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 228 - 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.