...neither profit or 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...

...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....given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.' " " What poetry did for himself, Coleridge has done...

...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...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 the beautiful in all...

...expect neither profit or general fame by my writings and I consider myself as having been amply repaid ha« given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that meets and surrounds...

...writings ; and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to roe its own 'exceeding great reward:' it has soothed my...endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of trishtng to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and that surrounds me." Soon after...

...<7 OF MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, MORAL, RELIGIOUS, SENTIMENTAL, AND AMUSING. BY HS GIBSON. "The study of Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward ; it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multipliedj^nd refined my enjoyments; it has given me (or at least strengthened in me) the habit to...

...Coleridge: " I expect from them neither profit nor general fame; and I consider myself amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward. It possesses power to soothe affliction, — to multiply and refine enjoyment, — to endear solitude,...

...fame by my writings; and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has heen to me its own " exceeding great reward:" it has soothed...enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given roe the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiml in all that meets and surrounds me....

...prayer for you shall be, May you in pious love be all the three. MONTGOMERY. POETRY, says COLERIDGE 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...

...Illustrations of a passage which prefaces an edition of his Juvenile Verses : " Poetry has heen to me its ' exceeding great reward ;' it has soothed my afflictions...it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the hahit of wishmg to due-over the good and the heautiful in all that meets and *ummndM me." s >-.-•...