Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Paperback
(TheClassics.us Sept. 12, 2013)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. IN SEVEN PARTS. Facile credo, plures esse Naturas invisibles quam visibiles in rerum universitate. Sed horum omnium familiam quis nobis enarrabit? et gradus et cognationes et discrimina et singulprum munera? Quid agunt? qua: loca habitant? Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit ingenium humanum, nunquam attigit. Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulS, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem cpntemplari: ne mens assuefacta hodiernae viue minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes. Sed veritati interea invigilandum est, modusque -rvandus, ut certa ab inccrtis, diem a noctc, distinguamus.--T. Buenet, Anhaol. Phil. p. 68. Argument. How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean ; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country. [1798.] An ancient Mariner meeteth three Gallants bidden to a wedding-feast, and detaineth one. PART I. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. "By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din." He holds him with his skinny hand, "There was a ship," quoth he. 10 "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!" Eftsoons his hand dropt he. The Wed- He holds him with his glittering eye-- it'spen-11"' The Wedding-Guest stood still, bound by the And listens like a three years child: ok?sea-fir- The Mariner hath his will. ing man, and constrained The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: to...
- ISBN
- 1230250735 / 9781230250731
- Pages
- 86
- Weight
- 5.9 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.44 x 0.18
in.