...irresponsible toward fact as he is trenchant in his portraiture. His object here is not truth, but effect. "Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those...smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle; attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there. His express...

...irresponsible toward fact as he is trenchant in his portraiture. His object here is not truth, but effect. "Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those...smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle; attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there. His express...

...and all outer conditions of uttering it, underwent most important modifications! CHAPTER COLERIDQE. COLERIDGE sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those...smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle; attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there. His express...

...lookjug down on London and its smoke tumult like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle, attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there. His express contributions to poetry, philosophy, or any specific province of human literature or enlightenment...

...depicting his dreamy boyhood, is like the opening scene of the drama whose final act Carlyle describes : "Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those...smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle ; attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls engaged there . . . He had,...

...such a man." Carlyle has left us a vivid description of the poet as he appeared in his last days : 1 " Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those years, looking down on London and its smoke tumult like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle; attracting toward him the thoughts...

...those who visited Highgate, Carlyle has left the most celebrated account of what was experienced there. "Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those...smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle; attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there. His express...

...quoting in part, and in places does, after all, much justice to Coleridge. " Coleridge," he says, " sat on the brow of Highgate Hill in those years looking down on London and its smoke tumult like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle, attracting towards him the thoughts...

...he could and gave for their good, Coleridge talked for his own pleasure and was selfishly absorbed. "Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill in those...thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there." Newman, even in retirement, never escaped from the battle except to commune with his own soul and even...

...Such, however, was the case. — MITPORD, MARY RUSSELL, 1851, Recollections of a Literary Life, p. 394. Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those...smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle ; attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there. . . ....