...green : And still I gaze — and with how blank an eye ! And tlioso thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars; Those stars, that glide behind them or between, Jfow sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen ; Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew Tn its own...

...the beauties of art, he turned a somewhat indifferent mind. He might have said with the poet — " I see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel, how beautiful they are." Only with Count Casimir the word "care" might have been substituted instead of " feel." And yet he...

...article by Canon Ainger in Macmillan's Magazine, June 1887. And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars ; Those...excellently fair ; I see, not feel, how beautiful they are ! My genial spirits fail ; And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast...

...green ; And still I gaze — and with how blank an eye ! And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars —...between, Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen — Von crescent moon, as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue : I see them...

...the second view is correct. Coleridge lamented his impaired creative powers in "Dejection: An Ode": I see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel, how beautiful they are! In the same way, we often recognize that something is interesting, admirable, fearful, pitiable, or grievous...

...vision. Coleridge's 'Dejection: an Ode' hinges on this severance between self and surrounding things: 'I see them all so excellently fair, / I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!' And Shelley's 'Stanzas Written in Dejection', by lamenting the absence of some other 'heart' to 'share...

...and the "thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, / That give away their motion to the stars . . . / I see them all so excellently fair, / I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!" The emotional opposite of such dejection is the joy of which Wordsworth and Coleridge so often speak....

...an eye'. And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their emotion to the stars; Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen: Yon...grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; 1 see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel, how beautiful they are! O Lady! we receive but...

...elements of nature; he can perceive, but he cannot receive: And still I gaze—and with how blank an eye! I see them all, so excellently fair; I see, not feel, how beautiful they are. (30: 37-8) Wordsworth, too, believed that joy was a necessary precondition of exercising the priestly...

...arousing the state of exultation or ecstasy, and their so-called "beauty" leaves the observer untouched: "I see them all so excellently fair, / I see, not feel, how beautiful they are! "("Dejection: An Ode," 11. 37-38). The double trafficking between "inner" and "outer" passion/power...