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The Man at the Gate ** Written in September 1940
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The man was Coleridge as De Quincey saw him, standing1 in a gateway2. For it is vain to put the single word Coleridge at the head of a page — Coleridge the innumerable, the mutable, the atmospheric3; Coleridge who is part of Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley; of his age and of our own; Coleridge whose written words fill hundreds of pages and overflow4 innumerable margins5; whose spoken words still reverberate6, so that as we enter his radius7 he seems not a man, but a swarm8, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting9 this way and that, clustering, quivering and hanging suspended. So little of this can be caught in any reader’s net that it is well before we become dazed in the labyrinth10 of what we call Coleridge to have a clear picture before us — the picture of a man standing at a gate:. . . his person was broad and full, and tended even to corpulence, his complexion11 was fair . . . his eyes were large and soft in their expression; and it was from the peculiar12 appearance of haze13 or dreaminess which mixed with their light, that I recognized my object.
That was in 1807. Coleridge was already
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1 standing | |
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的 | |
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4 overflow | |
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边( margin的名词复数 ); 利润; 页边空白; 差数 | |
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v.使回响,使反响 | |
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7 radius | |
n.半径,半径范围;有效航程,范围,界限 | |
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n.(昆虫)等一大群;vi.成群飞舞;蜂拥而入 | |
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9 darting | |
v.投掷,投射( dart的现在分词 );向前冲,飞奔 | |
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12 peculiar | |
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14 incapable | |
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15 paralytic | |
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16 alleviation | |
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17 appalling | |
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18 bough | |
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20 smeared | |
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21 diffusion | |
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22 prodigious | |
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23 immortal | |
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24 noted | |
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25 sufficiently | |
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26 complexity | |
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27 hypocrisy | |
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28 humiliated | |
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29 humiliation | |
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30 remains | |
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31 obtuse | |
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32 asunder | |
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33 opium | |
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34 motives | |
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35 infinity | |
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36 shreds | |
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37 forerunner | |
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39 parentheses | |
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40 prolix | |
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41 verge | |
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44 excremental | |
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49 agitating | |
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50 breach | |
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51 anguish | |
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52 vibration | |
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53 mythology | |
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54 pickles | |
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56 toad | |
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57 acquiescent | |
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58 entirely | |
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59 economists | |
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60 pious | |
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61 extinction | |
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62 giggle | |
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63 unanimity | |
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64 mighty | |
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65 aurora | |
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66 milky | |
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67 tersely | |
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68 detested | |
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69 rustle | |
v.沙沙作响;偷盗(牛、马等);n.沙沙声声 | |
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70 torpid | |
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71 fume | |
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72 lulled | |
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73 drowsiness | |
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74 caressing | |
爱抚的,表现爱情的,亲切的 | |
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75 majestically | |
雄伟地; 庄重地; 威严地; 崇高地 | |
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76 possessed | |
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77 discoursing | |
演说(discourse的现在分词形式) | |
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78 volition | |
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79 mermaids | |
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80 armour | |
(=armor)n.盔甲;装甲部队 | |
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81 bereft | |
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82 forth | |
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83 passionate | |
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