...the beautiful though unequal ode entitled Dejection, stanza six, occurs the following passage : — " For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." Considering the exquisite quality of some poems which Coleridge has composed, nobody can grieve (or...

...what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I nee Is must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. vII. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream ! I turn from you, and listen...

...gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, And to be still and patient, all I can, And, haply by...From my own nature all the natural man — This was (is) my sole resource, my only plnn : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now i» almost...

...can, And, haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was (is) my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." But I 'will trouble you with no more threnodies, and I know you will forgive me this once. TO THE SAME....

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

...original tendencies to develop themselves ; — my fancy, and the love of nature, and the sense of beanty in forms and sounds.* [For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, nil I can ; And haply by abstruse researeh to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This...

...But oh ! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me 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 research to steal • From my own nature all...

...himself in the profoundest abstractions, from life and human sensibilities. Bear witness his own lines : For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...the natural man ; This was my sole resource, my only plan.t Coleridge's own account of himself, at a period of disappointment in life, and with life, as...

...himself in the profoundest abstractions, from life and human sensibilities. Bear witness his own lines: For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...the natural man ; This was my sole resource, my only plan.f Coleridge's own account of himself, at a period of disappointment in life, and with life, as...

...Keswick in 1802, he laments the decay within himself of the shaping imagination, and says, that ..." By abstruse research to steal From my own nature all...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...