 | John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 370 pages
...in 1802, he laments the decay within himself of the shaping imagination, and says that — . i . " By abstruse research to steal From my own nature all...This was my sole resource, my only plan, Till that whieh suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." This passage opens... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1873 - 744 pages
...of that course are expressed with the bitterness of self-reproach in his ode on Drjecticm — " So not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be...steal From my own nature all the natural man. This was rny sole resource, my only plan, Till what befits a part infects the whole, And now has almost grown... | |
 | Mary Ann Reynolds Page - 1873 - 226 pages
...happiness. " But now afflictions bow me down to earth, Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; But O, each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination." But this sad change never came in her experience. Rather, it seems as though each visitation, instead... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 636 pages
...the beautiful though unequal ode entitled Dejection, stanza six, occurs the following passage : — " For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient all I can, And haply by abstrute research to steal From my men nature all the natural man, — This was my sole resource, my... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1894 - 548 pages
...faculties : ' But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; But oh ' each visitation Suspends what Nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.' It is a melancholy poem, and still more so when we remember that the remainder of his life only proved... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 726 pages
...profoundest abstractions, from liib »nd human sensibilities. ' For not to think of what I needs most feel, But to be still and patient all I can; And haply by abttruse research to steal, From my own nature, all the natural man : This was my sole resource, my... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1877 - 416 pages
...mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; But oh ! each visitation Suspends what Nature gave me at my...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 pages
...mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; But oh ! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my...my own nature all the natural man — This was my soul resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole. And now is almost grown... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...of what I needs must feel. But lo be etill and patient all I can ; And haply by abstnise research ta steal. From my own nature, all the natural man : This...was my sole resource, my only plan ; Till that which raits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." Such were, doubtless,... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1880 - 390 pages
...ruina But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth. But, oh ! each visitation, Suspends what Nature gave me at my...was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which cuits ap^rt infects the whole, And now is almcst grown the habit of my soul. And the only beautiful... | |
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But now afflictions bow me down to earth: Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth; But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. 
