| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Quotations, English - 1895 - 458 pages
...the farthest in the world from being credulous," or "as far from believing such things as any man." IF a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and...if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke — Aye ! and what then ? THE more exquisite and delicate a flower of joy, the tenderer must be the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Quotations, English - 1895 - 300 pages
...from being credulous," or " as far from believing such things as any man." If a man could pass throngh Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to...flower in his hand when he awoke — Ay! and what then ? The more exquisite and delicate a flower of joy, the tenderer must be the hand that plucks it. Floods... | |
| Pauline W. Roose - 1900 - 294 pages
...Dr. Johnson remarked, is so near to the heart of man. " If," says Coleridge (in " Anima Poetae "), " a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and...if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke ? Aye ! and what then ? " The saying itself is a flower of Paradise, with, instead of dew, the tears... | |
| John Livingston Lowes - Imagination - 1927 - 694 pages
...as they come to light in 'The Ancient Mariner.' And now we have yet stranger paths to trace. BOOK IV If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and...flower in his hand when he awoke — Ay ! and what then ? COLERIDGE, Anima Poeta Cotal son to, M quasi tutta cessa mia visione, ed ancor mi distilla nel cor... | |
| John Livingston Lowes - Imagination - 1927 - 698 pages
...they come to light in 'The Ancient Mariner.' And now we have yet stranger paths to trace. / BOOK IV If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and...pledge that his soul had really been there, and if hejound that flower in his hand when he awoke — Ay ! and what then ? COLERIDGE, minima Pott* Cotal... | |
| Berel Lang - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1983 - 254 pages
...method of interpreting Scripture does not widely differ from the method of interpreting nature. Spinoza If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and...had really been there, and if he found that flower there when he awoke — Ay! and what then? Samuel Taylor Coleridge Philosophy and the Art of Writing... | |
| Darrel Abel - Didactic fiction, American - 1988 - 348 pages
...way back into the Puritan reality, and to furnish us the means of dreaming their dreams as welL IY If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and...if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke — Aye! and what then?— Coleridge. Notebooks The black glove and pink ribbon are apt to mislead... | |
| Literary Collections - 1993 - 433 pages
...from the Garden of Eden (Eastern Europe) From Nifla'ot ha-Tzaddikim (Piotrkow: 1911) Coleridge asked, "If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream,...Ay! — and what then?" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poetry and Prose, edited by Elisabeth Schneider, 2nded., 1971, p. 617). This tale answers... | |
| Lois Parkinson Zamora, Wendy B. Faris - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 598 pages
...magical realism toward allegory. In "The Flower of Coleridge," Borges cites Coleridge's statement: "If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream,...flower in his hand when he awoke — Ay! — and what then?"17 In Borges' reprise of Coleridge's vision, we hear a nostalgic sigh ("Ay!") for the proof ("that... | |
| Alfred Alvarez - Fiction - 1996 - 324 pages
...burns. 'If a man could pass thro' Paradise in a Dream', Coleridge wrote in his notebooks in 1815, '& have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his Soul had really been there, & found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye! and what then?'67 That is what happened to him... | |
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