 I became very vain, and despised most of the boys that were at all near my own age, and before I was eight years old I was a character. Sensibility, imagination, vanity, sloth, and feelings of deep and bitter contempt for almost all who traversed the...  Hogg's Instructor - Página 1291852Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 páginas
...I may truly say, a memory and understanding foreed into almost unnatural ripeness, I was flattered and wondered at by all the old women. And so I became...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest. " From October, 1778, to 1779. That which I began to be from three to six, I continued to be from six... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1867 - 406 páginas
...all near my own age, and, before I was eight years old, I was a character. Sensibility, imagmation, vanity, sloth, and feelings of deep and bitter contempt...their place with extreme obstinacy. This childhood of Coleridge's we cannot, on the whole, pronounce healthy. Little boys are naturally objects of dread,... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1868 - 286 páginas
...own young literary self than that contained in these words from page 320 of the same volume : — " Sensibility, imagination, vanity, sloth, and feelings...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest." What is thus indicated is by no means an individual phenomenon, however, but a constitution of consciousness... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 páginas
...I may truly say, a memory and understanding forced into almost unnatural ripeness, I was flattered and wondered at by all the old women. And so I became...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest." * It appears that his father, simple-minded as he was, recognized the peculiar gifts of the child of... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - 1880 - 316 páginas
...I may truly say, a memory and understanding forced into almost unnatural ripeness, I was flattered and wondered at by all the old women. And so I became...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest. " From October, 1778, to 1779. That which I began to be from three to six, I continued to be from six... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1885 - 328 páginas
...I may truly say, a memory and understanding forced into almost unnatural ripeness, I was flattered and wondered at by all the old women. And so I became...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest. — SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE (Letter quoted in supplement to " Biographia Literaria").1 From October, 1779,... | |
 | 1886 - 218 páginas
...all the old women. And so I became very vain, and despised most of the boys that were at all near my age, and before I was eight years old I was a character....understanding were even then prominent and manifest." Coleridge was a capital talker ; but when even Carlyle, Wordsworth, or Henry Crabb Robinson were present,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1895 - 514 páginas
...a character. Sensibility, imagination, vanity, sloth, and feelings of deep and bitter contempt for all who traversed the orbit of my understanding, were even then prominent and manifest. From October, 1778, to 1779. That which I began to be from three to six I continued from six to nine.... | |
 | James Dykes Campbell, Leslie Stephen - 1896 - 386 páginas
...I may truly say, a memory and understanding forced into almost unnatural ripeness, I was flattered and wondered at by all the old women. And so I became...understanding, were even then prominent and manifest./ That which I began to be from three to six, I continued to be from six to nine. In this year [1778]... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1900 - 186 páginas
...activity. . . . Sensibility, imagination, vanity, sloth, and feelings of deep and bitter contempt for all who traversed the orbit of my understanding, were even then prominent and manifest." What the child began to be from three to six, he continued to be from six to nine. In this last year... | |
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