 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 meets and surrounds me.  Boys and their ways, by one who knows them - Seite 214von Boys - 1880 - 331 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - 1894 - 536 Seiten
...to me their own ' exceeding great reward,' they have multiplied and refined my enjoyments . . . and given me the habit of wishing to discover the good...the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me." This was no doubt an over-modest estimate to make on the part of so eminent a genius, but it would... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 Seiten
...is truth dwelling in beautv. — " Gilfillan. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward ; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and lieautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. — Coleridge. Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1894 - 258 Seiten
...general fame by my writings; and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward. It has soothed my affections ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude; and it has given... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 428 Seiten
...soothed his afflictions, it multiplied and re6ned his enjoyments, it endeared solitude, it gave him the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that met and surrounded him." He is called in Scotland " the discoverer of Robert Burns." On one occasion... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 Seiten
...lead them on the side of virtue. — COWPER. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward ; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. — ST COLERIDGE. When the Divine Artist would produce... | |
 | David Herschell Edwards - 1897 - 384 Seiten
...sunk under the burden of our weakness had we not been strengthened by Coleridge's words : — " Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward. It...the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me." Such, we doubt not, is the experience of every true poet. They are encouraging words to all who write... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1897 - 476 Seiten
...Carlyle (Life of Stirling), etc. (6) Illustrations of Coleridge's verbal music. CRITICAL OPINION. "Poetry has been to me its own 'exceeding great reward;' it...the Beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me." — Coleridge, Preface to Juvenile Poems, third ed. "His mind is a perpetual St. Vitus' dance — eternal... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 804 Seiten
...general fame by my writings ; and I consider myself a» having been amply repayed without either. Poetry has been to me its own ' exceeding great reward '...wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in аП that meets and surrounds me. There were inserted in my former Edition, a few Sonnets of my Friend... | |
 | 1898 - 1236 Seiten
...spiritual spheres. Samuel Taylor Coleridge exclaims: "Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward: it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me." And Oliver Goldsmith exults in the beauties discovered... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 Seiten
...Poetry has been to me," he says, " its own ' exceeding great reward ' ; it has soothed my affliction ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has...the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me." The poems in this volume, which hardly contains anything preeminent, reveal to us something of the... | |
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