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" At a very premature age, even before my fifteenth year, I had bewildered myself in metaphysics, and in theological controversy. Nothing else pleased me. History, and particular facts, lost all interest in my mind. "
The History of Christ's Hospital: From Its Foundation by King Edward the ... - Page 227
by John Iliff Wilson - 1821 - 308 pages
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Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 312 pages
...fifteenth year, I had bewildered myself in metaphysicks, and in theological controversy. Nothing else pleased me. History, and particular facts, lost all...to say, without reference to my age, were somewhat abov« 15 mediocrity, and which had gained me more credit, than the sound, good sense of my old master...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 2

1818 - 764 pages
...farther back than his juvenile poems ; and he says, " For a school bo)', I was aliuve par in Englith, versification, and had already produced two or three...reference to my age, were somewhat above mediocrity. Happily he has preserved one of those wonderful productions of his precocious boyhood, and our readers...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 2

1818 - 782 pages
...before my fifteenth year, bewildered in nitlkfhysicks and in theological controversy. Nothing else pleased me. History and particular facts lost all interest in my mind. Poetry itself, yea novels and romances, became insipid to me. This preposterous pursuit was beyond doubt injurious,...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical ...

1834 - 614 pages
...and omniscience of God, were the favourite musings of the young student. " Nothing else," says he, " pleased me. History, and particular facts, lost all...interest in my mind. Poetry (though, for a schoolboy, I was above par in English versification, and had already produced two or three compositions, which...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...to make presents of them to his friends ; and about the same period lie wrote his Ode to Chatterton. "Nothing else," he says, " pleased me ; history and...particular facts lost all interest in my mind." Poetry had become insipid ; all his ideas were directed to liis favorite theological subjects and mysticisms,...
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...my fifteenth year, I had bewildered myself in metaphysics and theological controversy. Nothing else pleased me. History and particular facts lost all interest in my mind. Poetry itself, yea novels and romances, became insipid to me." The perusal of Bowles's Sonnets, however, so...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volumes 156-157

1834 - 734 pages
...controversy. " Nothing else," says Air. Coleridge, "pleased me. History, and particular facts, lost aU interest in my mind. Poetry (though for a school-boy...my age, were somewhat above mediocrity, and which bad gained me more credit than the sound good sense of my old master was at all pleased with,) poetry...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 368 pages
...fifteenth year, I had bewildered myself in metaphysics, and in theological controversy. Nothing else pleased me. History, and particular facts lost all...that age, I was above par in English versification, * I am most happy to have the necessity of informing the reader, that since this Eassage was written,...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volumes 1-2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 pages
...fifteenth year, I had bewildered myself in metaphysics, and in theological controversy. Nothing else pleased me. History, and particular facts lost all...that age, I was above par in English versification, * I am most happy to have the necessity of informing the reader, that since this passage was Written,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 156

1834 - 772 pages
...himself in metaphysical speculation and theological controversy. " Nothing else," says Mr. Coleridge, "pleased me. History, and particular facts, lost all...mind. Poetry (though for a school-boy of that age, 1 was above par in English versification, and had already produced two or three compositions, which,...
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