 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
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...my writings, and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to ma its own exceeding great reward ; it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refinea my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude, and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...a great and good man. " Poetry," he said, " has been to me 'its own exceeding great reward:' it haa 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... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 860 pages
...nor general fume by my writings ; and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without cither. 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...ardent friend, a profound scholar, and in every respect a great and good man. " Poetry," he said, " 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... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pages
...cultivated amidst the pressing cares and anxieties of this matter-offact world. ' Poetry/ says Coleridge, ' has been to me its own exceeding great reward ; it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied my enjoyments ; and it has given me the habit of endeavouring to discover the good and beautiful in... | |
 | Abba A. Goddard - American literature - 1846 - 224 pages
...purging and unsealing her long abused light at the fountain of heavenly radiance." Said Coleridge, " Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward. It has soothed my afflictions, multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude, and given me the habit of wishing to... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...that deep voice which, from the skiei Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice, God's angel cries, FORBEAR ! Poetry has been to me its own <« exceeding great reward ;" it has soothed my affliction ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 310 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...Coleridge, in the Preface to his Poems ; " 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... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 602 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;'...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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