Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey

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Wiley and Putnam, 1847 - 378 pagina's
 

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Pagina 12 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication : and upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the earth.
Pagina 71 - And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
Pagina 216 - Chloris, Sappho, Lesbia, or Doris, Arethusa or Lucrece. " Ah !" replied my gentle fair, " Beloved, what are names but air? Choose thou whatever suits the line ; Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, Call me Lalage or Doris, Only, only call me Thine.
Pagina 292 - After my death I earnestly entreat that a full and unqualified narration of my wretchedness and of its guilty cause may be made public, that at least some little good may be effected by the direful example.
Pagina 244 - Why, Davy could eat them all! There is an energy, an elasticity in his mind, which enables him to seize on, and analyze all questions, pushing them to their legitimate consequences. Every subject in Davy's mind has the principle of vitality. Living thoughts spring up like turf under his feet.
Pagina 122 - And aye beside her stalks her amorous knight ! Still on his thighs their wonted brogues are worn, And thro...
Pagina 246 - When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
Pagina 295 - ... can give ; I now, on the eve of my departure, declare to you, and earnestly pray that you may hereafter live and act on the conviction, that health is a great blessing ; competence, obtained by honourable industry, a great blessing ; and a great blessing it is, to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives ; but that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.
Pagina 220 - And fashions in the depths — the spirit's ladder, That from this gross and visible world of dust, Even to the starry world, with thousand rounds, Builds itself up ; on which the unseen powers Move up and down on heavenly ministries — The circles in the circles, that approach • The central sun with ever-narrowing orbit — These see the glance alone, the unsealed eye, Of Jupiter's glad children born in lustre.
Pagina 294 - MY DEAR GODCHILD, I offer up the same fervent prayer for you now, as I did kneeling before the altar, when you were baptized into Christ, and solemnly received as a living member of His spiritual body, the Church. Years must pass before you will be able to read with an understanding heart what I now write ; but I trust that the allgracious God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father * See ante, p.

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