 ... bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learned from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science ; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex,...  Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions - Page 12by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Education - 1869 - 376 pages
...that of science, and more difficult because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable, not only tor every word, but for the position of every word. In our own English compositions (at least for the... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 266 pages
...of science ; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would...there is a reason assignable, not only for every word — and I well remember that, availing himself of the synonyms to the Homer of Didymus, he made us... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1873 - 408 pages
...carrying out of what was, in fact, the principle of his own writings, that " there should be a reason not only for every word, but for the position of every word." " A man," wrote Julius Hare in the " Guesses at Truth," " should love and venerate his native language... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 972 pages
...of science ; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would...remember, that availing himself of the synonymes to tho Homer of Didymus, ho made us attempt to show, with regard to each, why it would not have answered... | |
 | Dante Alighieri, Charles Tomlinson - 1877 - 196 pages
...that of science, and more difficult because more subtle, more complex and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would...and I well remember that, availing himself of the synonyms to the Homer of Didymns, he made us attempt to show, with regard to each, why it could not... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - 1880 - 316 pages
...of science ; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would...and I well remember that, availing himself of the synonyms to the Homer of Didymus, he made us attempt to show, with regard to each, why it would not... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell - Classical philology - 1907 - 570 pages
...of science ; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would...for every word, but for the position of every word. . . . He sent us to the University excellent Latin and Greek scholars, and tolerable Hebraists. Yet... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 216 pages
...that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would...of the synonymes to the Homer of Didymus, he made ns attempt to show, with regard to each, why it would not have answered the same purpose, and wherein... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - Poets, English - 1882 - 212 pages
...that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would...availing himself of the synonymes to the Homer of Didytnus, he made us attempt to show, with regard to each, why it would not have answered the same... | |
 | James Locke Batchelder - Christianity - 1884 - 402 pages
...A Lacedemonian was fined for saying that in three words which might have been expressed in two. — There is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word. — Coleridge. A phrase may outweigh a library. . . . There may be phrases which shall be palaces to... | |
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