In time the Coleridgian con - cepts were watered down, and some twentieth-century writers have only a vague notion of them. From Wordnik.com. [ORGANICISM] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
The unction of that blessing called down upon his persecutor is truly Coleridgian. From Wordnik.com. [In a Green Shade A Country Commentary] Reference
The peculiarity of the 'Germano-Coleridgian' school was that they saw beyond the immediate controversy. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
The 'Germano-Coleridgian doctrine,' says Mill, was a reaction against the philosophy of the eighteenth century: 'ontological,' 'conservative,' 'religious,'. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
Mr. Coleridge -- whose nightly vigils were long -- had not yet come down to breakfast: meantime, and until the epoch of the Coleridgian breakfast should arrive, his study was lawfully disposable to profaner uses. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference
While the Court does not dispute that infringement of a copyright results in harm, it requires a Coleridgian "suspension of disbelief" to accept that the harm is irreparable, especially when monetary damages can cure any alleged violation. From Wordnik.com. [Recording Industry vs The People] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I]
Coleridgian word) that belongs to some process of creative nature, such as the unfolding of a flower. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
A Coleridgian word) that belongs to some process of creative nature, such as the unfolding of a flower. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Reviews] Reference
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