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...But, oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination. And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man,— This is my sole resource, my only plan; For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and...

...imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, From my own nature all the natural man,— " But to be still and patient all I can, And haply by abstruse research to steal This is my sole resource, my only plan; Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is...

...gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply...From my own nature all the natural Man — This was ray sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost...

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...at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to he still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. Some resemblance may be traced between the thought in a part of this extract and Wordsworth's noble...

...imagination, and says, that . . . " By abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natunil man ; This was my sole resource, my only plan, Till...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." This passage opens a far glimpse into his mental history. It shows how metaphysics, for which he had...

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...at my birth. My slmping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to he eeze ! Spirit»! to you the infant Maid was given,...Love's wide empire know, 14o fairer maid e'er heaved suilH a part infects the whole, Aad now it almost grown the habit of my Soul. va. Hence, viper thoughts,...

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