...bow me down to earth : Nor heed I that they rob me of my mirth. But oh, each visitation Sitxpends, what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit...imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, And to be still and patient, all I can, And, haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature...

...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...spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I nee Is must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Keswick in 1602, he laments the decay within himself of the shaping imagination, and says, that ..." By abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man; Tliis was my sole resource, my only plan, Till that which suits ap irt infects the whole, And now is...

...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...research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — vil. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream ! I turn from you, and...

...mental tight;" perhaps feeling within himself as Coleridge did in the days of hi« " Dejection," — " For not to think of what I needs must feel. But to be still and patient all I can, And haply by absiruee research, to steal From my own nature all the natural man ; This was my sole resource mj only...

...seem'd 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. # " * * * # Reality's dark dream! I turn from you, and listen to the wind, Hence, viper thoughts, that...

...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...natural man ; This was my sole resource, my only plan, Coleridge's own account of himself, at a period of disappointment in life, and with life, as seen in...