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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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De Quincey Memorials: Being Letters and Other Records, Here First ..., Volume 2

Thomas De Quincey - 1891 - 320 pages
...charms or ear or sight. All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours or suffusion from that light. There was a time when, though my path was rough. This...within me dallied with distress, And all misfortunes irerc but as the stuff Whence fancy made me dreams of happiness ; For hope grew round me, like the...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 31

1923 - 574 pages
...melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. Yes, dearest William, yes I 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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The English Poets, Volume 4

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...or car or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. TL There was a time when, though my path was rough, This...twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But oh!...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 886 pages
...voice. All colours a suffusion from that light. Yes, dearest EDMUND, yes ! There was a time when, tho' my path was rough, This joy within me dallied with...the stuff Whence fancy made me dreams of happiness : 80 For hope grew round me, like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine....
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 190 pages
...their powers is successive rather than simultaneous. A man will be a poet in youth and a philosopher For hope grew round me like the 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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English Men of Letters, Volume 10

John Morley - 1894 - 620 pages
...follows the much quoted, profoundly touching, deeply significant stanza to which we have referred : " 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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Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1895 - 118 pages
...to realize, his own inadequacy. It was, in part, this that drove him into philosophic speculation. " There was a time when, though my path was rough, This...For hope grew round me like the twining vine, And fruit and foliage not my own seemed mine. i I i i But now afflictions bow me to the earth, Nor care...
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Select Poems of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Campbell Longfellow

Frederick Henry Sykes - 1895 - 690 pages
...34.—This drooping gate. Bijou, this dragging gate. 1. 86.—tears take sunshine, etc. There was the time when, though my path was rough, This joy within...dreams of happiness ; For Hope grew round me like a twining vine, etc. —Coleridge, Dejection. 1. 37.—Life is but thought. A touch of C.'s philosophic...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1895 - 118 pages
...to realize, his own inadequacy. It was, in part, this that drove him into philosophic speculation. " There was a time when, though my path was rough, This...distress, And all misfortunes were but as the stuff But now afflictions bow me to the earth, Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But oh ! each visitation...
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Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1895 - 118 pages
...to realize, his own inadequacy. It was, in part, this that drove him into philosophic speculation. "There was a time when, though my path was rough,...distress, And all misfortunes were but as the stuff But now afflictions bow me to the earth, Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But oh ! each visitation...
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