... almost in his presence, and when there was the most unreserved intercourse between them as to all their literary projects and productions, and he had never heard from him any plan for finishing it. Not that he doubted my uncle's sincerity in his subsequent... MacMillan's Magazine - Page 445edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1876 - 544 pages
...that he doubted my uncle's sincerity in his subsequent assertions to the contrary ; because, he said, schemes of this sort passed rapidly and vividly through...really and upon trial proved to be mere, embryos. I omitted to ask him, what seems obvious enough now, whether, in conversing about it, he had never... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1890 - 412 pages
...that he doubted my uncle's sincerity in his subsequent assertions to the contrary ; because, he said, schemes of this sort passed rapidly and vividly through...really, and upon trial, proved to be mere embryos." — Wordsworth's Prose Works, v. iii., 427. Gillman goes so far as to supply a sketch of the proposed... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 886 pages
...that he doubted my uncle's sincerity in his subsequent assertions to the contrary ; because, he said, schemes of this sort passed rapidly and vividly through...really, and upon trial, proved to be mere embryos. I omitted to ask him, what seems obvious enough now, whether in conversing about it, he had never asked... | |
| Literature - 1896 - 928 pages
...edition of 1828 the whole sentence was repeated with the exception of the words we have italicized. If, then, this was the case, why did he not finish...mind, he writes at another time: "If I should finish 'Chrlstabel' I should certainly extend it and give new characters and a greater number. ... If a genial... | |
| 1896 - 842 pages
...italicized. lf, then, this was the case, why did he not finish it, or at least set himself to the task? ln opposition to Coleridge's statement we have the evidence...speaks of the plan as being quite perfected in his imind, he writes at another time: "lf l should finish 'Christabel' i should certainly extend it and... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 806 pages
...that he doubted my uncle's sincerity in his subsequent assertions to the contrary ; because, he said, schemes of this sort passed rapidly and vividly through...mind, and so impressed him, that he often fancied h-- had arranged things, which really, and upon trial, proved to be mere embryos. I omitted to ask... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1908 - 142 pages
...him any plan for finishing it"; and added, what is fully borne out by a study of Coleridge's life: "schemes of this sort passed rapidly and vividly through...really, and upon trial, proved to be mere embryos." " The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain," wrote Longfellow, alluding to "The... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1909 - 810 pages
...he doubted my uncle's sincerity in his subsequent assertions to the contrary ; Ix.-- eause, he said, schemes of this sort passed rapidly and vividly through...arranged things, which really, and upon trial, proved to Ix,- mere embryos. I omitted to ask him, what seems obvious enough now. whether in conversing about... | |
| J. Robert Barth - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 180 pages
...that he doubted my uncle's sincerity in his subsequent assertions to the contrary; because, he said, schemes of this sort passed rapidly and vividly through...which really and upon trial proved to be mere embryos" (Christopher Wordsworth, Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-Laureate, DCL, 2:306-7). 1 1. The lines,... | |
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