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  • The ox in "Recantation" may be described in Coleridge's footnote as a symbol for the French Revolution, but the animal is nevertheless presented in terms of its naturalized emotions: "The ox was glad, as well he might,/Thought the green meadow no bad sight/And frisk'd, - to shew his huge delight" (ll.

    The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature 2001

  • In "Recantation," for instance, he imagines a Utopian future, one in which "human happiness will be perfected," where "silk and wool clothing/will be softer daily," and a tunnel will run under the Thames, and the smallest city be well lit at night.

    Giving new voice to Leopardi's songs of love and longing Michael Dirda 2010

  • In "Recantation," for instance, he imagines a Utopian future, one in which "human happiness will be perfected," where "silk and wool clothing/will be softer daily," and a tunnel will run under the Thames, and the smallest city be well lit at night.

    Giving new voice to Leopardi's songs of love and longing Michael Dirda 2010

  • "Recantation" or "distancing" would not only raise the most severe questions about Bishop Williamson's own intellectual integrity (assuming one can use such terms with regard to a Holocaust denier); it would also reinforce the view that the Church -- especially under the current Pope?

    Balkinization 2009

  • -- A Recantation '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Two months ago, I believed that if Bush and Cheney were to be impeached and convicted by the Senate, investigations would have to take place, with the amassing of evidence, testimony under oath, and extended debate in Congress.

    Impeachment NOW! -- A Recantation 2007

  • Recantation became the best evidence that the abuse had actually occurred according to social workers.

    Wake Up Time for the "Stupid White Man" 2007

  • _Recantation of an Ill-led Life_, London, 1634, to show that prisoners, who received pardon after condemnation, were accustomed to present gloves to the judges: --

    Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849 Various

  • "_A Recantation of an Ill-led Life_, or a discovery of the highway law, as also many _cautelous_ admonitions, and ful instructions how to know, shun, and apprehende a _thiefe_, most necessary for all honest travellers to peruse, observe, and practice; written by _John Clavel_, gent."

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829 Various

  • Floating Island_; or a Voyage from _Lambethania to Ramalia_; _A discovery of O Brazil_; _Jacksons Recantation_, _The Red Sea_, &c.

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

  • In the _Recantation_ he casts her off for ever; he perceives at last that true liberty is not to be obtained through political, but only through spiritual emancipation; that --

    English Men of Letters: Coleridge 1871

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