COLERIDGE'S PRINCIPLES OF CRITICISM CHAPTERS I., III., IV) XIV.-XXII. OF "BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA" WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ANDREW J. GEORGE, M.A. "The thirst to know and understand BOSTON, U.S.A. D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS 1895 COPYRIGHT, 1895, By D. C. HEATH & CO. Norwood Press : J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith. OH! yet a few short years of useful life, And all will be complete, thy race be run, Thy monument of glory will be raised; Then, though (too weak to tread the ways of truth) Though men return to servitude as fast As the tide ebbs, to ignominy and shame By nations sink together, we shall still Find solace knowing what we have learnt to know, Of firmer trust, joint labourers in the work Prophets of Nature, we to them will speak By reason, blest by faith: what we have loved, Of quality and fabric more divine. WORDSWORTH TO COLERIDGE, PRELUDE XIV., 430-455. 1 |