 My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan; Till that...  Studies in Poetry and Philosophy - Page 177by John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 399 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas De Quincey - English literature - 1851 - 384 pages
...sensibilities. ' For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal, From my own nature,...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.' Such were, doubtless, the true and radical causes, which, for the final twenty-four years of Coleridge's... | |
 | English literature - 1851 - 612 pages
...imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient all I can ; And haply, by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream !" COLERIDGE : Dejection, an... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English literature - 1851 - 384 pages
...feel, But to be still and patient all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal, From my on>n nature, all the natural man : This was my sole resource,...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.' Such were, doubtless, the true and radical causes, which, for the final twenty-four years of Coleridge's... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1851 - 386 pages
...feel, But to be still and patient all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal, From my orcn nature, all the natural man : This was my sole resource,...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.' Such were, doubtless, the true and radical causes, which, for the final twenty-four years of Coleridge's... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 760 pages
...sounds.* [For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my souL Poet. Works, p. 181. The passage in the text has been more than once cited by those who cite nothing... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 318 pages
...passage : ' For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.' Considering the exquisite quality of some poems which Coleridge has composed, nobody can grieve (or... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 352 pages
...— " For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient all I can, And haply by abstruse research to steal From, my own nature...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." Considering the exquisite quality of some poems which Coleridge has composed, nobody can grieve (or... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 322 pages
...passage : ' For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.' Considering the exquisite quality of some poems which Coleridge has composed, nobody can grieve (or... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 338 pages
...must feel, But to be still and patient all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my omn nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource,...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.' Considering the exquisite quality of some poems which Coleridge has composed, nobody can grieve (or... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 316 pages
...feel, But to be still and patient all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal • From my orcn nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource,...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.' Considering the exquisite quality of some poems which Coleridge has composed, nobody can grieve (or... | |
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