...less. He cursed Lamb with a curse that has come home to roost. Coleridge, whom Shelley had beheld — "Obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense...irradiation of a mind Which, with its own internal lightning blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair." — the iconoclastic Scot pronounced...

...pathless past These recollected pleasures ? You are now In London ; that great sea whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits...more. Yet in its depth what treasures ! You will see That which was Godwin, — greater none than he; Though fallen, and fallen on evil times, to stand,...

...pathless past These recollected pleasures ? You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits...more. Yet in its depth what treasures ! You will see That which was Godwin, — greater none than he Though fallen — and fallen on evil times — to stand...

...Mrs. Shelley, transcript || aerial, Mrs. Shelley, 1824. At once is deaf and lond, and on the she re Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures ! You will see That which was Godwin, — greater none than he Though fallen — and fallen on evil times — to stand...

...Coleridge. Compare the passage with that in the Letter to Maria Gisborne, describing him as sitting obscure In the exceeding lustre, and the pure Intense...irradiation of a mind, Which with its own internal lightning blind Flags wearily through darkness and despair. — ED. The splendour- winged chariot of...

.../{'. Coleridge, whose poetry 's poetry's self. LEIGH HUNT : The Feast of the Poets . . . Coleridge — he who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre, and the...irradiation of a mind, Which, with its own internal lightning blind, r Flags wearily through darkness and despair — A cloud-encircled meteor of the air,...

...those words upon his face. From a Letter to Maria Gisborne. [1820 Coleridge. You will see Coleridge ; he who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the...irradiation of a mind Which, with its own internal lightning blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair— A cloud-encircled meteor of the air,...

...casts upon the circle of his English friends. Yon are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Tet in its depth what treasures ! You will see That which was Godwin,—greater none than he Though...

...in Piccadilly ! Thus he writes of London as : — That great sea whose ebb and flow At once is deep and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more, Yet in its depths what treasures ! In л similar way the sadness of a great city affected the raind of William...

...life in Piccadilly ! Thus he writes of London as : That great sea whose ebb and flow At once is deep and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more, Yet in its depths what treasures ! In a similar way the sadness of a great city affected the mind of William Blake,...