Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists and Other Literary Remains of S.T. Coleridge, Volume 1W. Pickering, 1849 - Literature |
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... BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER Harris's Commendatory Poem on Fletcher 287 288 · • 290 291 • Life of Fletcher in Stockdale's Edition . 1811 . 293 · Maid's Tragedy A King and no King The Scornful Lady · The Custom of the Country The Elder Brother ...
... BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER Harris's Commendatory Poem on Fletcher 287 288 · • 290 291 • Life of Fletcher in Stockdale's Edition . 1811 . 293 · Maid's Tragedy A King and no King The Scornful Lady · The Custom of the Country The Elder Brother ...
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... Beaumont , the Bishop of Durham , Mr. Sotheby , and afterwards to Mr. Rogers and Lord Byron , whether there is one single principle in Schlegel's work ( which is not an admitted drawback from its merits ) , that was not established and ...
... Beaumont , the Bishop of Durham , Mr. Sotheby , and afterwards to Mr. Rogers and Lord Byron , whether there is one single principle in Schlegel's work ( which is not an admitted drawback from its merits ) , that was not established and ...
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... Beaumont and Fletcher , the Kotzebues of the day . Shakspeare's fathers are roused by ingra- titude , his husbands stung by unfaithfulness ; in him , in short , the affections are wounded in those points in which all may , nay , must ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher , the Kotzebues of the day . Shakspeare's fathers are roused by ingra- titude , his husbands stung by unfaithfulness ; in him , in short , the affections are wounded in those points in which all may , nay , must ...
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... Beaumont and Fletcher's plays , and the greater part of Ben Jonson's comedies are farce- plots . I add All's Well that Ends Well , originally intended as the counterpart of Love's Labour's Lost , Taming of the Shrew , Midsummer Night's ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher's plays , and the greater part of Ben Jonson's comedies are farce- plots . I add All's Well that Ends Well , originally intended as the counterpart of Love's Labour's Lost , Taming of the Shrew , Midsummer Night's ...
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... Beaumont and Flet- cher are , when of the light kind , not decent ; when heroic , complete viragos . But in Shakspeare all the elements of womanhood are holy , and there is the sweet , yet dignified feeling of all that continuates ...
... Beaumont and Flet- cher are , when of the light kind , not decent ; when heroic , complete viragos . But in Shakspeare all the elements of womanhood are holy , and there is the sweet , yet dignified feeling of all that continuates ...
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Page 166 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page 157 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Page 246 - Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. Lady M. Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since, And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou...
Page 109 - Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Page 112 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 54 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Page 196 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 248 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Page 10 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 167 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.