 own exceeding great reward ; ' it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.  Selections from Ovid, ed. by E.S. Shuckburgh - Page 72by Publius Ovidius Naso - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd - English poetry - 1797 - 310 pages
...or general fame by my writings; and I consider myself as having been amply repayed without either. Poetry has been to me its own " exceeding great reward:"...and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that meets and... | |
 | 1797 - 700 pages
...general fame by my writ, " ings ; and I confider myfelf as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own 'exceeding great reward :' it has foothed my affliftions, it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared lolitude ; and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1803 - 228 pages
...or general fame by my writings ; and I consider myself as having been amply repayed without either. Poetry has been to me its own " exceeding great reward...soothed my afflictions, it has multiplied and refined niy enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...else been voiceless music ; then are we grateful to the illustrious dead. Coleridge himself said, ' Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward....and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pages
...profit or general fame by my writings; and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own " exceeding great reward...and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that meets... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...Coleridge's poems what he says, in the conclusion of his Preface, of poetry itself. The study of his " poetry has been to me its own ' exceeding great reward...and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me (or at least strengthened in me) the habit of wishing to discover- the good and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...profit or general fame by my writings and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own . exceeding great reward...refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude: and it ha« given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that meets... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1882 - 856 pages
...writings ; and 1 "North British Review," No. 55. I consider myself as being amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward...and refined my enjoyments, it has endeared solitude, and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 590 pages
...nor general fame by my writings ; and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own ' exceeding great reward...and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets... | |
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