The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...if you do puhlish this chapter in the present work, you will he reminded of Bishop Berkeley's Piris, announced as an Essay on Tar-water, which, heginning with tar, ends with the Trinity, the omne scihile forming the interspace. I say in the present work. In that greater work to which you have devoted so many years, and study so intense nnil various, it will ho in its proper place. Your prospectus will have descrihed and announced hoth its contents and their nnture; and if any persons purchase it, who feel no interest in tho suhjects of which it treats, they will have themselves only to hlame. "I could add, to these arguments, one derived from pecuniary motives, and particularly from the prohahle effects on the saltt of your present puhlication; hut they would weigh little with you, compared with the preceding. Besides, I have long ohserved, that arguments drawn from your own pergonal intersmts, more often net on you as narcotics, than as stimulants, and that, in money concerns, you have some small portion of piir-naiuro in your moral idiosyncrasy, and, like these amiahle creatures, must, occasionally, he pulled hackward from the hoat in order to make you enter it. All Buenew attend you, for if hard thinking and hard reading are merits, you have deserved it. Your affectionate, &c. In consequence of this very judicious letter, which produced complete conviction on my mind,? shall content myself for the present with stating the main result of the chapter, which I have reserved for that future puhlication, a detailed prospectus of which the reader will find at the close of the second volume. The Imagination, then, I consider either as primary or secondary. The primary Imagination I hold to he the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, an...