Samuel Taylor Coleridge en zijne intuities op het gebied van wijsbegeerte, ethiek en godsdienstA. Oosthoek, 1909 - 312 pages |
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Page 62 - Believe thou, O my soul, Life is a vision shadowy of Truth ; And vice, and anguish, and the wormy grave, Shapes of a dream ! The veiling clouds retire, And lo ! the Throne of the redeeming God Forth flashing unimaginable day Wraps in one blaze earth, heaven, and deepest hell.
Page 58 - So my friend Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood, Silent with swimming sense; yea, gazing round On the wide landscape, gaze till all doth seem Less gross than bodily; and of such hues As veil the Almighty Spirit, when yet he makes Spirits perceive his presence.
Page 57 - My mind feels as if it ached to behold and know something great, — something one and indivisible — and it is only in the faith of this that rocks or waterfalls, mountains or caverns, give me the sense of sublimity or majesty. But in this faith all things counterfeit infinity! — 'Struck with the deepest calm of Joy...
Page 83 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 59 - Eternal dooms for His immortal sons. From ho"pe and firmer faith to perfect love Attracted and absorbed : and centered there God only to behold, and know, and feel Till by exclusive consciousness of God All self-annihilated it shall make God its Identity : God all in all ! We and our Father one...
Page 16 - While we argue from the course of nature and infer a particular intelligent cause which first bestowed and still preserves order in the universe, we embrace a principle which is both uncertain and useless. It is uncertain because the subject lies entirely beyond the reach of human experience.
Page 10 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 45 - I am a compleat Necessitarian — and understand the subject as well almost as Hartley himself — but I go farther than Hartley and believe the corporeality of thought — namely, that it is motion — . Boyer thrashed Favell most cruelly the day before yesterday — I sent him the following Note of consolation.
Page 63 - His eye is large and full, and not very dark, but grey, such an eye as would receive from a heavy soul the dullest expression ; but it speaks every emotion of his animated mind : it has more of ' the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling
Page 82 - 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.