I-BLESSED ARE YE THAT SOW BESIDE ALL WATERS. BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, AUTHOR OF 'THE FRIEND, a series of ESSAYS," ETC. ETC. LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. This Volume is a verbatim reprint of the original editions of Coleridge's "Biographia Literaria" (1817); "The Statesman's Manual," a Lay Sermon (1816); and "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters," a Lay Sermon (1817). These editions have long been out of print, and are now quite scarce. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. The motives of the present work-Reception of the author's first publication-The dis- cipline of his taste at school-The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds-Bowles's Sonnets-Comparison between the poets before and since Pope The Lyrical Ballads with the preface-Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems-On fancy and imagination-The investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts Of the necessary consequences of the Hartleian theory-Of the original mistake or equi. Vocation which procured admission for the theory-Memoria Technic 56 |