 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 117by James Gillman - 1838 - 362 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 pages
...or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. VI. 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... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1884 - 218 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...me, like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, no* my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow nn, ^own to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1884 - 310 pages
...or sight, • All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. " VI. There was a time when, though my path was rough, This joy within me dallied with distress, And all misfortuues were but as the stuff Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness : For Hope grew round me,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 328 pages
...EVENING. 2. Analyse and parse the following : ' There was a time, when, though my path was rough, The joy within me dallied with distress ; And all misfortunes were but as the stuff When fancy made me dream of happiness.' EVENING. [A description of the coming on of evening in Paradise,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1887 - 308 pages
...or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. VI. And all misfortunes were but as the stuff Whence Fancy...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1888 - 328 pages
...or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. VI. 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 : Xor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1889 - 248 pages
...retirement to Highgate, Coleridge himself had mournfully recorded the suspension of his poetic faculty. " There was a time when, though my path was rough, This...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... | |
 | 1889 - 552 pages
...on earor 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1889 - 88 pages
...retirement to Highgate, Coleridge himself had mournfully recorded the suspension of his poetic faculty. " There was a time when, though my path was rough, This...me dallied with distress, And all misfortunes were hut as the stuff Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness; For hope grew round me, like the twining... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1891 - 320 pages
...charms or ear or sight, AH melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours or suffusion from that light There was a time when, though my path was rough, This...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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