 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1884 - 310 pages
...tranquil muse upon tranquillity ; Full many a thought uncalled and undetained, And many idle flitting phantasies, Traverse my indolent and passive brain,...intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of All 1 But thy more serious eye a mild reproof Darts, O beloved woman ! nor such thoughts Dim and unhallowed... | |
 | Alexander Viets Griswold Allen - Theology, Doctrinal - 1884 - 480 pages
...desire, Supreme Reality." Or again, speaking of nature in its relation to God: — " And what if all animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed,...intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all ? " » The true idea of immortality is finely expressed in language that would meet the demand of Schleiermacher's... | |
 | Catherine Garrett - Self-Help - 1998 - 264 pages
...wind, is a material as well as a metaphysical force, as Coleridge suggested in 'The Aeolian Harp': And what if all of animated nature Be but organic...breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all? 13 Anthropologist Naomi Quinn (1991), in a critique of Lakoffand Johnson, insists that they overemphasize... | |
 | Ora Wiskind-Elper - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 326 pages
...analogue for the thinking mind: And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely fram'd, That tremble into thought as o'er them sweeps, Plastic...intellectual breeze At once the soul of each and God of all? ("The Eolian Harp," stanza 2, lines 44—48.) The motif of David's harp as a metaphor of divine inspiration,... | |
 | Owen Barfield - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 236 pages
...itself. That is the case with Coleridge's poem The Aeolian Harp, where you find these often quoted lines: And what if all of animated nature Be but organic...breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all? But more often perhaps the theory is kept apart from the practice and is expressed in prose. There is Shelley,... | |
 | J. Douglas Kneale - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 250 pages
...climax of "Effusion xxxv": And what if all of animated nature Be but organic Harps diversly fram'd, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic...Breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all? The trope of a harp played by a divine, creative maestro unites the two passages, along with specific... | |
 | John Gregory - Neoplatonism - 1999 - 214 pages
...44—8) from the Eolian Harp: And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely formed, That tremble into thought as o'er them sweeps, Plastic...intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each and God of all? BIBLIOGRAPHY Armstrong, AH, The Architecture of the Intelligible Universe in the Philosophy ofPlotinus,... | |
 | Paul A. Bové - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 334 pages
...tranquil muse upon tranquility; Full many a thought uncall'd and undetain'd, And many idle flitting phantasies, Traverse my indolent and passive brain,...gales That swell and flutter on this subject Lute! 17 Although this comparison is useful in a loose sense because it does suggest that Said is indeed... | |
 | Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 644 pages
...commemorated in the wind-harp, that privileged figure of art-asnature. Coleridge in "The Aeolian Harp" asks: And what if all of animated nature Be but organic...breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all? In a letter Coleridge wondered "Is thinking impossible without arbitrary signs? and — how far is... | |
 | Frank Mehring - Nature in literature - 2001 - 194 pages
...moralischen Legitimie447 „And what if all of animated nature/ Be but organic harps diversely framcd,/ That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps/ Plastic...breeze,/ At once the Soul of each, and God of all?" Coleridge, „The Eolian Harp". Poems. Vol. 1. S. 101, 4448. 448 Vgl. Thoreau, Writings. Vol. 9. S.... | |
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And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all? 
