 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.  The North British review - 164 psl.1851Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1890 - 412 psl.
...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 psl.
...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." And then follow the lines which De Quincey has quoted. which are imperfect and less emphatic without... | |
 | 1923 - 574 psl.
...seemed mine. 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." These are among the saddest and humblest words ever written. They are also profoundly true. Coleridge... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 psl.
...Ill-tidings bow me down to Earth — Nor care I, that they rob me of my Mirth; But O! each Visitation 240 Suspends, what Nature gave me at my Birth, My shaping Spirit of Imagination ! I speak not now of those habitual Ills, That wear out Life, when two unequal minds Meet in one House,... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - 1995 - 234 psl.
...own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth: Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth; My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think...research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — 90 This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 psl.
...REJOINDER TO A CRITIC You may be right: "How can I dare to feel?" May be the only question I can pose, "And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man" My sole resource. And I do not suppose That others may not have a better plan. And yet I'll quote again,... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 164 psl.
...(CPW i. 364). The metaphysical explanation reappears: For not to think of what I needs must feel, Mui to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse...steal From my own nature all the natural man — This w as my sole resource, my onh plan: Till that which snits a part infests the whole, And now is almost... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 psl.
...think: TSE marked Defection 87-90 in his copy of Coleridge's Poetical Works (1907, Houghton Library): For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...research to steal From my own nature all the natural man i—2 feel . . . think . . . pen and ink: twelve days after his father's death, TSE wrote to his mother,... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - 1998 - 1018 psl.
...rough, This joy within me dallied with distress . . . But now afflictions bow me down to earth: . . . each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. (82-86) Very possibly it was Coleridge's publishing of "Dejection" at this cruel juncture that determined... | |
 | Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 psl.
...self-discipline: 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...natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan. (82-9i) Now that his wishes for the future have been cut off, he has entered a curious limbo, wherein... | |
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