Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life And Opinions 1-2
Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life And Opinions 1-2
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
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S.C.1 BI06RAPHIA LITERAIUA.
a volume would scarce suffice to exhaust the instances), the last stanza of the poem on the withered Celandine, vol. ii., p. 312.'* <* To be a Prodigal's Farorite — ^then, wone truth, A Miser's Pensioner— behold our lot !
O Man ! that itom thy fair and shining youth Age might but take the things Youth needed not.'* Both in respect of this and of the former excellence, Mr.
Wordsworth strikingly resembles Samuel Daniel, one of the golden writers of our golden Elizabethan age, now most cause- lessly neglected : Samuel Daniel, whose diction bears no mark of time, no distinction of age, which has been, and as long as our language shall last, will be so far the language of the to-day and for ever, as that it is more intelligible to us, than the transi- tory fashions of our own particular age. A similar praise is due to his sentiments. No frequency of perusal can deprive them of their freshness. For though they are brought into the full day-light of every reader's comprehension ; yet are they drawn up from depths which few in any age are privileged to visit, into which few in any age have courage or inclination to descend.
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