Poetry has been to me its own " exceeding great reward:" it has soothed my afflictions, it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that... Poems - Seite xivon Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd - 1797 - 278 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1797 - 700 Seiten
...neither profit or general fame by my writ, " ings ; and I confider myfelf as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own 'exceeding great reward :' it has foothed my affliftions, it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared lolitude ; and... | |
| 1834 - 614 Seiten
...else been voiceless music ; then are we grateful to the illustrious dead. Coleridge himself said, ' Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward....given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.' " " What poetry did for himself, Coleridge has done... | |
| 1829 - 558 Seiten
...Coleridge's poems what he says, in the conclusion of his Preface, of poetry itself. The study of his " poetry has been to me its own ' exceeding great reward...enjoyments; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me (or at least strengthened in me) the habit of wishing to discover- the good and the beautiful in all... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 Seiten
...expect neither profit or general fame by my writings and I consider myself as having been amply repaid ha« given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that meets and surrounds... | |
| H. S. Gibson - 1834 - 170 Seiten
...<7 OF MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, MORAL, RELIGIOUS, SENTIMENTAL, AND AMUSING. BY HS GIBSON. "The study of Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward ; it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multipliedj^nd refined my enjoyments; it has given me (or at least strengthened in me) the habit to... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1834 - 316 Seiten
...Coleridge: " I expect from them neither profit nor general fame; and I consider myself amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward. It possesses power to soothe affliction, — to multiply and refine enjoyment, — to endear solitude,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 170 Seiten
...fame by my writings; and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has heen to me its own " exceeding great reward:" it has soothed...enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given roe the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiml in all that meets and surrounds me.... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - 272 Seiten
...prayer for you shall be, May you in pious love be all the three. MONTGOMERY. POETRY, says COLERIDGE has been to me, " its own exceeding great reward ;" it has soothed my affliction* ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 Seiten
...Illustrations of a passage which prefaces an edition of his Juvenile Verses : " Poetry has heen to me its ' exceeding great reward ;' it has soothed my afflictions...it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the hahit of wishmg to due-over the good and the heautiful in all that meets and *ummndM me." s >-.-•... | |
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