Excerpts from the Book 'Coleridge':
... political and religious enthusiasms unabated. A study of these crude but vigorous addresses reveals to us, as does the earlier of the early poems, ...
... the projector, muttering that he was overrun with these articles. This, however, was Coleridge's last attempt at canvassing. His friends at Birmingham ...
... which he thrice applies to his friend that epithet which gave such humorous annoyance to the gentle-hearted Charles. [5]. But a greater ...
... And prayed where he did sit. I took the oars: the Pilot's boy, Who now doth crazy go, Laughed loud and long, and all the while His eyes went to ...
... the medium of vision has been of variable quality, and somehow we come home with an uneasy suspicion that we have not seen as much as we might. It is ...
... Its motive is certainly a little slight, and its sentiment more than a little overstrained. The noble enthusiasm of the noble lady who, though nursed ...
... the case as an active verb, the advocate to smoke as a neuter verb the 'fun grew fast and furious,' until at length the delinquent arose, burning ...
... for Malta we gather nothing from any source as to Coleridge's normal condition of body and mind which is not unfavourable, and it is quite certain that ...
... Tieck, the German poet and novelist, and the American painter Alston, to whose skill we owe what is reputed to be the best of his many not easily reconcilable ...
... expressions of concern, repeated too often began to rouse disgust. Many in anger, and some in real uncertainty whether it would not be trouble thrown ...
... a motive for honourable ambition was supplied by the fact that every periodical paper of the kind now attempted, which had been conducted with zeal ...
... in Ireland, was well calculated to stimulate the literary activity of a man who always took something of the keen interest of the modern Radical ...
... which you have every power of embodying, and I cannot but regret that the part of Ordonio was disposed of before his appearance at Drury Lane. We have ...
... however, is not content with this method of procedure as, indeed, with so avowedly practical an object in view he scarcely could be, for a manual ...
... it, was in the habit of holding, we may believe that a considerable portion of these closing years of his life was passed under happier conditions ...
... to compare him, to Parson Adams. Of the poet's mother we know little but it is to be gathered from such information as has come to us through Mr. ...
... wall of the stables at Reading. This officer, who it seems was either able to translate the ejaculation, Eheu. quam infortunii miserrimum est fuisse ...
... as subjects partaking of reality by virtue of the same substance of which he is conscious in his own person. So far, however, from this being a philosophy ...
... Gillman's house at Highgate) whispering strange things, uncertain whether oracles or jargon.. The above quotation would suffice for my immediate ...
... for some years, in receipt of a pension from a private source. But Coleridge, as Miss Meteyard's disclosures have shown, was at all times far more ...