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" But to find no contradiction in the union of old and new, to contemplate the ANCIENT OF DAYS with feelings as fresh, as if they then sprang forth at his own fiat, this characterizes the minds that feel the riddle of the world, and may help to unravel... "
1. On the constitution of the Church and State ... ii. Lay sermons. Ed. with ... - Page 226
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 80 pages
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Coleridge and the Armoury of the Human Mind: Essays on His Prose Writings

Peter J. Kitson, Thomas N. Corns - 1991 - 144 pages
...fresh, as if all had then sprung forth at the first creative fiat; characterizes the mind that feels the riddle of the world, and may help to unravel it ... this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents...
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Contest for Cultural Authority: Hazlitt, Coleridge, and the Distresses of ...

Robert Keith Lapp - 1999 - 224 pages
...the state of the world." Coleridge calls upon the gentry to "contemplate the ANCIENT OF DAYS" because "this, most of all things, will raise you above the...therefore will best entitle and qualify you to guide and controul them!" (6: 25). The Bible thus teaches different things to different classes of society, differences...
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Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception

Lucy Newlyn - 2000 - 432 pages
...no contradiction in the union of the old and new, to contemplate the ANCIENT OF DAYS, his words and works, with a feeling as fresh as if they were now...the riddle of the world and may help to unravel it!' (SM 25). IV. POSTHUMOUS FAME AND THE PLACE OF CRITICISM If 'the old time' and 'the hour to come' were...
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Aids to Reflection, in the Formation of Manly Character, on the Several ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 483 pages
...elevating thought in ciraumstances that in a different mood had excited his mirth. the union of old and new, to contemplate the Ancient of days, his words...fresh as if they were now first springing forth at laisfoit — this characterizes the minds that feel the riddle of the world and may help to unravel...
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Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...to contemplate the Ancient of days with feelings as fresh, as if they then sprang forth at his own fiat — this characterizes the minds that feel the riddle of the world, and may help to unravel it ! To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood, to combine the child's sense of...
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The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy

Ian Balfour - 2002 - 372 pages
...promises the imagined statesmen and clerisy that a reading of the Bible along the lines he suggests "will raise you above the mass of mankind, and therefore...entitle and qualify you to guide and control them" (25). The Statesman's Manual, then, is a program for the higher classes of society to read the Bible...
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Coleridge and the Conservative Imagination

Alan P. R. Gregory - 2003 - 308 pages
...contemplate the ANCIENT OF DAYS, his words and his works, with a feeling as fresh as if they were now springing forth at his fiat — this characterizes...feel the riddle of the world and may help to unravel it!53 Those who are alive to the creative power of ideas, discover that which is both ancient and novel....
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Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception

Lucy Newlyn - 2003 - 436 pages
...no contradiction tu the union of the old and new, to contemplate the ANCIENT OF DAYS, hu words and works, with a feeling as fresh as if they were now first sprtugtug forth at his fiat — this characterizes the minds that feel the riddle of the world and...
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