 | Werner Beierwaltes, Jean-Marc Narbonne, Alfons Reckermann - One (The One in philosophy). - 2004 - 608 pages
...Coleridge worries that his may be an "indolent and passive brain" but then exclaims: And what if all animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed,...breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all. The Aeolian harp is the harp of Orpheus that was played on the wind after his death (Cf BL I pl 17).... | |
 | Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 332 pages
...as published in Poems ( 1796), Coleridge asks whether nature may be 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? (lines 37-40) Coleridge added lines to 'The Eolian Harp' in Sibylline Leaves (1817), in which the breeze... | |
 | Robert Sean Lewis (aka Rafiq) - Religion - 2004 - 153 pages
...the individual and Gaj also finds expression in Coleridge's poetry: And what if all animated nature That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic...breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all? 6 Invisible and inexplicable, the "intellectual breeze" (ie, the primary imagination) can be perceived... | |
 | John C. Hampsey - Philosophy - 2004 - 236 pages
...tranquillity: Full many a thought uncalled and undetained, And many idle flitting phantasies, Travers my indolent and passive brain, As wild and various...gales That swell and flutter on this subject Lute!" The poem climaxes in the next stanza with a grand "what if" passage, as Coleridge paranoically shifts... | |
 | David Grumett - Philosophy - 2005 - 332 pages
...the world similar to that of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who on hearing the music of the spheres asks: 'And what if all of animated nature / Be but organic...intellectual breeze, / At once the Soul of each, and God of all?'14 Teilhard's response to Coleridge's question would be that this harmonious unity in diversity... | |
 | Sylvia Mendez Ventura - Philippine literature - 2005 - 192 pages
...all-encompassing sense of God's universe when he heard the music the wind created as it strummed an Eolian harp: And what if all of animated nature Be but organic...intellectual breeze At once the soul of each, and God o/a!l?14- (Italics supplied.) Let us now proceed to chart Gilda's unorthodox spiritual journey. In... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Literary Collections - 2005 - 575 pages
...yet receptive poet experiences spontaneous thoughts, "many idle flitting fantasies" traversing his indolent and passive brain, As wild and various as...gales That swell and flutter on this subject Lute! (38-13) In the speculation that immediately follows (a sublimely pantheistic surmise shortly, and ominously... | |
 | Gavin Hopps, Jane Stabler - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 284 pages
...of perception were cleansed', proclaims Blake, 'every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite'; 'And what if all of animated nature / Be but organic...breeze, /At once the Soul of each, and God of all?' asks Coleridge; 'If this / Be but a vain belief, Wordsworth anxiously muses, revealing that the status... | |
 | Nicholas Reid - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 216 pages
...Coleridge. 10 See for instance: 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 (1.44). 1 1 On the constitutive role of practical reason in faith, see also AR 1 75, 2 1 7, 468-469... | |
 | Elizabeth Pepper - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2005 - 116 pages
...Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, 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! *NOTTVRNO* iri&Brh II May 21 -June 20 dsfc*f* Mercury Mutable Sign of Air fiQ&Ms S m t to t I 5 May... | |
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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? 
