 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 312 pagina’s
...plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hipocrene, were all an abomination to him. In fancy I can almost...you mean ! Muse, boy, Muse ? your Nurse's daughter, youmean! Pierian spring? Oh 'aye! the cloister-pump, I suppose!" Nay certain introductions, similies,... | |
 | 1818 - 764 pagina’s
...logic of its own as severe as that of science. • • • * * Lute, harp, and lyre ; muse, muses, and inspirations ; Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene...can almost hear him now exclaiming, • Harp .* Harp 9 Lyrct Pen and Ink ! Boy you mean ! Mute ! bay ! Mute ! your Nurte't daughter you mean t B Pierian... | |
 | 1818 - 782 pagina’s
...had a logic of its own as severe as that of science. * * * * * Lute, harp, and lyre ; muse, muses, and inspirations ; Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene...* Harp ? Lyre ? Pen and Ink ! Boy you mean ! Muse ! lx)yf Muse ! your Nurse's daughter you mean ! B Pierian Spring ! O Aye ! the cloister Pump /'••••... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pagina’s
...have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses. and inspirations. — Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene...nurse's daughter, you mean ! Pierian spring ! Oh, ay ! the cloister pump, I suppose." " There was one custom of our master's, which I cannot pass over... | |
 | 1821 - 526 pagina’s
...without remembering the remarks of the instructor of Mr. Coleridge, " Lute, harp and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene,...mean ! Muse, boy, muse ? — Your nurse's daughter, jou mean ! Pierian spring ? — O, aye ; the cloister pump, I presume !" It is, however, but just to... | |
 | 1821 - 522 pagina’s
...without remembering the remarks of the instructor of Mr. Coleridge, " Lute, harp and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene,...Lyre ?—Pen and ink, boy, you mean ! Muse, boy, muse ? —Yonr nurse's daughter, you mean! Pierian spring ?—O, aye; the cloister pump, I presume !" It... | |
 | John Iliff Wilson - 1821 - 348 pagina’s
...have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations, — Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene,...almost hear him now exclaiming, — Harp ? Harp ? Lyre 9 Pen and ink, boy, you mean! Muse, boy, Muse! yournurse's daughter, you mean ! Pierian spring 9 Oh... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pagina’s
...might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene, were all an abomination to him." — " There was one custom of our master's, which I cannot pass over in silence, because I think it... | |
 | 1820 - 474 pagina’s
...force and dignity in plainer 172 THF, EARLY LIFK OK A POUT. words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene, were all an abomination to him. Infancy I can almost hear him now exclaiming, " Harp ? harp ? lyre ? Pen and ink, hoy, you mean! Muse,boy,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pagina’s
...— Pegasus, I'uruassus and Hippocrene, were all an abomination to him. In fancy, 1 can almost bear k& ?lـ p/ ! jour nurse's daughter, you mean ! Pierian spring ! О ay! the cloister pump, I suppose.» In his... | |
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English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words.... 
