 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1890 - 412 Seiten
...so good English as reccus caspcs is good Latin. 2 Shaping, $c.] Compare Dejection : an Ode : — " What Nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination." 3 Morning's feverous doze.'] Compare The Pains of Slrtp. Is this l piled earth our being's passless... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1891 - 320 Seiten
...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...me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination." And then follow the lines which De Quincey has quoted, which are imperfect and less emphatic without... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1891 - 320 Seiten
...round me, like the twining vine. And fruits and foliage not my own seemed mine. Hut now afflictions bow me down to earth, Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; Hut oh ! each visitation Suspends what Nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination."... | |
 | 1923 - 574 Seiten
...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...me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination." These are among the saddest and humblest words ever written. They are also profoundly true. Coleridge... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 190 Seiten
...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...Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 Seiten
...grew round me, like the 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...Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 886 Seiten
...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...me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. [The Sixth and Seventh Stanzas omitted.] 0 wherefore did I let it haunt my mind This dark distressful... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 Seiten
...seemed um«s. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care 1 that they rob me of my mirth, I!ut oh ! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me...shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what 1 needs must feel, B;it to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 620 Seiten
...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 0 ! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. For... | |
 | Charles Francis Keary - 1895 - 528 Seiten
...was something left. Once he happened to light upon some lines of Coleridge : " But now afflictions bow me down to earth; Nor care I that they rob me...me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination." These lines he learned by heart and used to repeat them to himself with an infinite self-pity. But... | |
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But now afflictions bow me down to earth: Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. 
