Coleridgian

But her gift for animating metaphor with sudden drama very much the Coleridgian tactic shines through these few balladic stanzas whose desolating last line curls and repeats with a wave-like inevitability.

Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009

In time the Coleridgian con - cepts were watered down, and some twentieth-century writers have only a vague notion of them.

ORGANICISM G. N. G. ORSINI 1968

While my intimacy with Roebuck diminished, I fell more and more into friendly intercourse with our Coleridgian adversaries in the Society, Frederick Maurice and John Sterling, both subsequently so well known, the former by his writings, the latter through the biographies by Hare and Carlyle.

Chapter V. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward 1909

His maxim that men might employ their sagacity in discovering the latent wisdom which underlies general prejudices and old institutions, instead of exploding them, inspired Coleridge, as I have already said; and the Coleridgian school are Burke's direct descendants, whenever they deal with the significance and the relations of Church and State.

Burke Morley, John 1907

Bland, who at last became a professed Catholic, was something of a Coleridgian transcendentalist, though he treated a copy of Bakunin's God and the State to a handsome binding.

The History of the Fabian Society Edward R. Pease 1906

The unction of that blessing called down upon his persecutor is truly Coleridgian.

In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892

Chef-d'oeuvre Inconnu_, he attains a kind of point of unity between disrealising and realising -- he disrealises the common and renders the uncommon real in a fashion actually carrying out what he can never have known -- the great Coleridgian definition or description of poetry.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

He is one, and the best, of a small class extant here, who, nigh drowning in a black wreck of Infidelity (lighted up by some glare of Radicalism only, now growing dim too) and about to perish, saved themselves into a Coleridgian Shovel-hattedness, or determination to preach, to preach peace, were it only the spent echo of a peace once preached.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

While my intimacy with Roebuck diminished, I fell more and more into friendly intercourse with our Coleridgian adversaries in the Society, Frederick Maurice and John Sterling, both subsequently so well known, the former by his writings, the latter through the biographies by Hare and Carlyle.

The autobiography of John Stuart Mill 1873

The essence, in short, of the Coleridgian ontology consists in the alteration of a single though a very important word in the well-known Cartesian formula.

English Men of Letters: Coleridge 1871