 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
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 308 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 all...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. Hence ! viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, — Reality's dark dream ! I turn from you ; and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1882 - 448 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. VII. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream ! I turn from you, and listen... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 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 ! I turn from you, and listen... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 734 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. VII. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream ! I turn from you, and listen... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1884 - 310 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 ! I turn from you, and listen... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Skipsey - 1884 - 304 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 ! I turn from yon, and listen... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1884 - 236 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." Sadder lines than these were never perhaps written by any poet in description of his own feelings.... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1884 - 250 pages
...all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural Man — This my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my Soul." Sadder lines than these were never perhaps written by any poet in description of his own feelings.... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1884 - 228 pages
...patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural Man— This my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my Soul." Sadder lines than these were never perhaps written by any poet in description of his own feelings.... | |
 | Literature - 1885 - 852 pages
...an insatiable craving. Five years later, in often quoted lines, he describes how by abstruse search to steal From my own nature all the natural man ;...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. The course of political events loosened him from his Unitarian moorings. He was swept into the stream... | |
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