The notebooks
dc.contributor | Coburn, Kathleen Victoria College |
dc.contributor.author | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T11:03:46Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T11:03:46Z |
dc.date.created | 1794-1834 |
dc.date.issued | 1983-12-08 |
dc.identifier | ota:0538 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/0538 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/0538 |
dc.description.abstract | Title proper taken from electronic text (nbvol1.0538) The six files that make up this text can be split into two groups, both of which contain the text. The first three files (cnotesx) indicate deletions, Greek words, and italics. The last three files (nbvolx) contain extra flagging |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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dc.subject.lcsh | Record-keeping works -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Notebooks -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
dc.title | The notebooks |
dc.type | Text |
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files.size | 6034680 |
files.count | 7 |
otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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THE NOTEBOOKS
1794--1804
Entries 1--1 842
1 1.1 <3Take>3 Think any number you like--double--add <1f1>1
12 to it--halve it--take away the original number--and there re-
mains six.
2 1.3 Go into an Orchard--in which there are three
gates--thro' all of which you must pass--Take a certain number of
apples--to the first man I give half of that number & half an apple
--to the 2nd half of what remain & half an apple--to the third half
of what remain & half an apple--and yet I never cut one Apple.
3 1.4 Think of any Card in the Pack--I will shew <3thou>3 <1f1v>1
you the Card.
4 1.5 Smile from subrisus. B and M both labials/hence
Infants first utter a, Ba, pa, a, milk--. In Greek the W (V) rendered
by <2Ou>2 & by <2B,>2 not by <2ph>2. So <2Ourgilios, Birgilios.>2 As B for W so
M for W. Mit = with.
5 1.6 Cities amid the ruins of the world like cottages in <1f2>1
some Castle ruined--
6 1.8 Sermon on Faith <1f3>1
The scriptural uses of the word--& a promise to
shew th . . .

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THE NOTEBOOKS
1804---1808
Entries 1843--3231
1843 16.226 Left Grasmere, Saturday noon, Jan. 14. 1804-- f70
on foot/arrived at Kendal after a sweltring walk thro' heavy hot
air & the latter half of the Journey thro' Drizzle, at 5 o'clock in the
evening--19 miles/in 5 hours, & I rested once to lunch.
1844 16.227 Images of Calmness on @@@Grasmere@@@ Rydale Lake,
Jan. 14/ @@@new@@@ fresh Delves in the Slate Quarry I @mistook@ for smoke
in the reflection/An islet Stone, at the bottom of the Lake, the
reflection so bright as to be heaved up out of the water/the Stone
& its reflection looked so compleatly one, that Wordsworth re-
mained for more than 5 minutes trying to explain why that Stone
had no Reflection/& at last found it out by me/the shore, &
green field, @@@with@@@ a Hill bank below that Stone, & with Trees &
Rock forming one brilliant picture without was such, that look at
the Reflection & you annihilated the water/it is all one piece of
bright Land/just half wink your Eyes & . . .

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THE NOTEBOOKS
I808-1819
Entries 3232-4504
3232 22.147 W--W--&c <1f84>1
It is not in nature to love those, who after my whole man-
hood's service of faithful self-sacrificing Friendship have want-
only stripped me of all my comfort and all my hopes--and to
hate them is not in <1my>1 nature. What remains ?--to do them all
the good, I can; but with a blank heart!
3233 22.148
"And Zephyrus and Flora gentilly
Gave <3the>3 to the Flowrets soft and tenderly
Their sote\ breath, & made them for to sprede
As God & Goddess of the flowry mede:
In which methoughten, I might daye by daye
Dwellen always the jolly month of May
Withouten sleepe, withouten mete or drink! <1f84v>1
Adown full softily I gan to sink
And leaning on my elbow and my side
The longe\ day I shope me to abide
For nothing ellis (and I shall not lie)
But for to lokin upon the <1Daisie>1
The Daisie, or else the eye of the Day,
The empress and the flower of flo<3wers>3uris all
I pray to God, that . . .