Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes' oblivion of it. For some months the cloud seemed to grow thicker and thicker. The lines in Coleridge's Dejection — I was not then acquainted with them — exactly describe my case: A grief without... Carlyle and Mill: Mystic and Utilitarian - Страница 190по Emery Edward Neff - 1924 - 334 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| 1874 - 596 страници
...Coleridge's " Dejection " — I was not then acquainted with them — exactly describe my case : " A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy,...natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear." ' In vain I sought relief from my favourite books ; those memorials of past nobleness and greatness... | |
| 1878 - 1002 страници
...deaf to his cries, the world was cold and cheerless, and even the fount of Faith was almost dry. ' A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear ; A drowsy, stifled, unimpaasioned grief. Which finds no outlet nor relief In word, or sigh, or tear.' — Coleridge. Ode... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 260 страници
...exertion. Mine WHS become • A grief without a pnng, void, Hark, and drear, A heavy, drowsy, unimpnssion'd grief, Which finds no natural outlet, or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear. t Even affection for my own family, which till novr had ever tenanted my bosom, appeared for a time... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1831 - 508 страници
...Hers was become — "A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassiou'd grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear." Pride now seemed the only feeling alive in that heart where once had dwelt all the sweetest, softest... | |
| 1867 - 514 страници
...?"í[ And in time Edith's becomes A grief without a pang, void, dark, and dreary, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, "Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear. It is commonly remarked, as Mr. Herbert Spencer has said, that the * Diary of Madame d'Arblay, vol.... | |
| william harrison - 1867 - 518 страници
...?"íf And in time Edith's becomes A grief without a pang, void, dark, and dreary, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear. It is commonly remarked, as Mr. Herbert Spencer has said, that the * Diary of Madame d'Arblay, vol.... | |
| 1875 - 854 страници
...wear, whether she liked it or not. Coleridge refers to this sort of mind in his striking verse : " A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unlmpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet of relief, In word, or sigh, or tear 1 " How many... | |
| 1874 - 618 страници
...lines in Coleridge's ' Dejection' — I was not then acquainted with them— exactly describe my case : 'A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A...natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear.' " * It is clear as daylight that Stuart Mill was now realizing the utter insufficiency of any benevolent... | |
| Henry Allon - 1874 - 764 страници
...lines expressed exactly his condition, — 'A grief without a pang, void dark and drear, A dreary, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear.' All exertion now was difficult. Books gave him no enjoyment. He loved DO companion sufficiently to... | |
| 1874 - 332 страници
...Coleridge's ' Dejection ' — I was not then acquainted with them — exactly describe my case : — ' A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A drowsy stifled uuimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear.' In vain I... | |
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