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" Christabel unfinished, and as I had before heard it. What talent does he not waste in forming visions, sublime, but unconnected with the real world ! I have looked to his efforts, as to the efforts of a creating being ; but as yet, he has not even laid... "
The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart - Page 109
by John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 547 pages
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Early Years and Late Reflections

Clement Carlyon - 1836 - 340 pages
...He talked in the course of an hour, of beginning three works, and he recited the poem of Christabel unfinished, and as I had before heard it. What talent...foundation for the new world of intellectual forms." In October, 1804, he writes to the same friend as follows : — " I have received a letter from Coleridge...
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The Christian Review, Volume 15

1850 - 664 pages
...group) had been watching him with delight in Malta and in London — (beautifully as truly he says : " I have looked to his efforts as to the efforts of a creating being ; but as yet he has not laid the foundation for the new world of intellectual forms."t) And John Foster speaks of " the very...
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Early Recollections: Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor ..., Volume 2

Joseph Cottle - 1837 - 370 pages
...He talked in the course of an hour, of beginning three works ; and he recited the poem of Christabel unfinished, and as I had before heard it. What talent...efforts of a creating being ; but as yet he has not laid the foundation for the new world of intellectual forms." Sir H. Davy was the chief agent, in prevailing...
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Early Recollections: Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor ..., Volume 2

Joseph Cottle - 1837 - 380 pages
...He talked in the course of an hour, of beginning three works ; and he recited the poem of Christabel unfinished, and as I had before heard it. What talent...efforts, as to the efforts of a creating being; but us yet he has not laid the foundation for the new world of intellectual forms." Sir H. Davy was the...
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Early Recollections: Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor ..., Volume 2

Joseph Cottle - 1837 - 370 pages
...He talked in the course of an hour, of beginning three works ; and he recited the poem of Christabel unfinished, and as I had before heard it. What talent...unconnected with the real world ! I have looked to his eiforts, as to the efforts of a creating being ; but as yet he has not laid the foundation for the...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1837 - 704 pages
...breeze, and modified by every sun-beam. He talked in the course of an hour of beginning three works What talent does he not waste in forming visions,...with the real world ! I have looked to his efforts as the efforts of a creating being ; but as yet he has not laid the foundation for the new world of intellectual...
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Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey

Joseph Cottle - 1847 - 562 pages
...He talked in the course of an hour, of beginning three works; and he recited the poem of Christabcl unfinished, and as I had before heard it. What talent does he not waste in forming visions, subb'me, but unconnected with the real world ! I have looked to his efforts, as to the efforts of a...
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Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, Bart ...

Sir Humphry Davy - 1858 - 348 pages
...sunbeam. He talked in the course of an hour of beginning three works ; he recited the poem of Christabel unfinished, and as I had before heard it. What talent...efforts of a creating being ; but as yet he has not laid the foundation for the new world of intellectual forms." A year later, he writes : — " I have...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1859 - 890 pages
...course of an hour, of beginning three works; and he recited the poem of Christabel, unfinished. . . . What talent does he not waste in forming visions sublime, but unconnected with the real world ! " Unhappily, in Malta, he fell into the habit which was the curse of his later life, that of taking...
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The Royal Institution: Its Founder and Its First Professors

Bence Jones - 1871 - 486 pages
...waste in forming visions sublime, but unconnected with the real world ! I have looked to his efforts as the efforts of a creating being, but as yet he has...finished I propose to visit Paris, and perhaps Geneva. On May 10 the first lecture was given before the Board of Agriculture, and five others on succeeding...
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