Coleridge And His Followers: A Lecture (1853) - Hardcover

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Lecture is one which involves no small amount both of difficulty and delicacy in its treatment. We have to deal with principles of philosophic thinking subtle, profound, far-reaching, comprehensive, and powerful for good or evil as they were expressed by one of England snoblest sons of Genius, in language at all times beautiful exceedingly, but not unfrequently melting away into dream-like vagueness, leaving the mind in a state of delighted but inapprehensive wonder. To compress that vast region of thought into a narrowcompass, and to reduce it to more simple and definite form, must needs be indeed a difficult task. On the other hand, to state the result of our investigations freely, and yet with due respect and veneration of the mighty and honoured dead, and also with due courtesy to the able and earnest-minded living who are regarded as his followers, demands the utmost delicacy, such as only love and charity can lend to sincerity and truth. It is our hope, that in the course of the following disquisition we may not be found either rashly unconscious of the difficulty, or forgetful of the delicacy, of our arduous task.
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