 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 410 sidor
...Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old age.f How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectly free from the least touch...subjects of his poetry is particularly remarkable in * Mr. Coleridge said, he thought this novel would have lost nothing in energy if the author had been... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 sidor
...Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old age. How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectly free from the least touch of sickly melancholy or morbid drooping."3 1 Campbell. " Specimens of the British Poets," p. 5, last Ed. * Hazlitt. "Lectures on the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 462 sidor
...Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old age. How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectly free from the least touch...merely by the inborn kindly joyousness of his nature. Table Talk, March 15, 1834, pp. 290, 2d edit. Ed.] a Pope was under the common error of his age, an... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 338 sidor
...Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in ray old age. How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectly free from the least touch...subjects of his poetry is particularly remarkable in Shakespeare and Chaucer; but what the first effects by a strong act of imagination and mental metamorphosis,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 570 sidor
...Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old age. How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectly free from the least touch...subjects of his poetry is particularly remarkable in Shakespeare and Chaucer; but what the first effects by a strong act of imagination and mental metamorphosis,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 572 sidor
...The sympathy of the poet with the subjects of his poetry is particularly remarkable in Shakespeare and Chaucer ; but what the first effects by a strong...merely by the inborn kindly joyousness of his nature. Table Talk, March 15, 1834, p. 290, 2nd edit. Ed.] * Pope was under the common error of his age, an... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 458 sidor
...Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old nge. How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectly free from the least touch...merely by the inborn kindly joyousness of his nature. Table Talk, March 15, 1834, pp. 290, 2d edit. Ed.] a Pope was under the common error of his age, an... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 764 sidor
...Chaucer. His manly cheerfuluess is especially delicious to me in my old age. How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectly free from the least touch...of imagination and mental metamorphosis, the last docs without any effort, merely by the inborn kindly joyousness of his nature. Table Talk, IV. p. 604.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 760 sidor
...drooping! The sympathy of the poet with the subjects of his poetry is particularly remarkable in Shakspcare and Chaucer; but what the first effects by a strong act of imagination and mental metamorphosis, the lost docs without any effort, merely by the inborn kindly joyousness of his nature. ' Table Talk, IV.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 758 sidor
...Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old age. How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectly free from the least touch...merely by the inborn kindly joyousness of his nature. Table Talk, IV. p. 504. \ Pope was under the common error of his age, an error far from being sufficiently... | |
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I take unceasing delight in Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old age. How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectly free from the least touch of sickly melancholy or morbid drooping! 
