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" There was a time when, though my path was rough, This joy within me dallied with distress, And all misfortunes were but as the stuff Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness: For hope grew round me, like the twining vine, And fruits and foliage, not my... "
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Page 117
by James Gillman - 1838 - 362 pages
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The New Life

Horace Bushnell - 1866 - 338 pages
...regret, because he was caught by the temptations of fortune and now endures the bitter penalty — " Fancy made me dreams of happiness ; For hope grew...twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, acem'd mine." The picture he draws of himself is the picture, alas ! of the general folly of mankind....
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Sunday readings (verses).

Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 pages
...rejoice! And thence flows all that charms, or ear or sight, All melodies, the echoes of that voice, And all misfortunes were but as the stuff Whence fancy...me dreams of happiness; For Hope grew round me like a twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seem'd mine. But now afflictions bow me down to...
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Christabel and the Lyrical and Imaginative Poems of S.T. Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 pages
...charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. There was a time when, though my path was rough, This...twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But...
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Episodes in an Obscure Life

Richard Rowe - 1871 - 460 pages
...' All my misfortunes are but as the stufT Whence fancy makes me dreams of happiness ; For hops grow round me, like the twining vine, And fruits and foliage, not my own, seem mine. The adroitest artist can only hint the deliriously bracing coolness of the autumn morning...
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Episodes in an obscure life [by R. Rowe].

Richard Rowe - 1871 - 272 pages
...' All my misfortunes are but as the stuff Whence fancy makes me dreams of happiness ; For hops grow round me, like the twining vine, And fruits and foliage, not my own, seem mine.' The adroitest artist can only hint the deliciously bracing coolness of the autumn morning...
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Memoir of Mrs. Mary Reynolds Page

Mary Ann Reynolds Page - 1873 - 226 pages
...and better period of his life, remained true of her to the end. " There was a time," he says, — " When though my path was rough, This joy within me...the stuff, Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness. " But now afflictions bow me down to earth, Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; But O, each visitation...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 470 pages
...or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. Yt. There was a. time when, though my path was rough,...twining vine, And fruits, and foliage not my own, seemed mine, But now afflictions bow me dov.-n to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth,...
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Theology in the English Poets: Cowper, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Burns

Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 pages
...manhood's time is the Ode to Dejection, one verse of which too well represenfs the ruin of his life. There was a time when, though my path was rough, This...the stuff \ Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness i For Hope grew.round me, like the twining vine, '^ And fruits, and foliage, uot mine own, seemed i...
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Text-book of Poetry: From Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, Beattie, Goldsmith ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pages
...charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. There was a time when, though my path was rough, This...mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth ; Nor c*re I that they rob me of my mirth: But 0 ! each visitation Suspends what Nature gave me at my birth,...
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Theology in the English Poets: Cowper--Coleridge--Wordsworth and Burns

Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 374 pages
...manhood's time is the Ode to Dejection, one verse of which too well represents the ruin of his life. There was a time when, though my path was rough, This...like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not mine own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my...
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