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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... Polonius on political grounds , as imagining that he had assisted his uncle in his usurpation , should express himself satirically , - yet this must not be taken as exactly the poet's conception of him . In Polonius a certain indura ...
... Polonius on political grounds , as imagining that he had assisted his uncle in his usurpation , should express himself satirically , - yet this must not be taken as exactly the poet's conception of him . In Polonius a certain indura ...
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... Polonius , whose character has been often mis- represented . Shakspeare never intended him for a buffoon , & c . * - Another excellence of Shakspeare in which no writer equals him , is in the language of nature . So correct is it , that ...
... Polonius , whose character has been often mis- represented . Shakspeare never intended him for a buffoon , & c . * - Another excellence of Shakspeare in which no writer equals him , is in the language of nature . So correct is it , that ...
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... Polonius . Ib . Ham . A little more than kin , and less than kind . King . How is it that the clouds still hang on you ? Ham . Not so , my lord , I am too much i ' the sun . Hamlet opens his mouth with a playing on words , the complete ...
... Polonius . Ib . Ham . A little more than kin , and less than kind . King . How is it that the clouds still hang on you ? Ham . Not so , my lord , I am too much i ' the sun . Hamlet opens his mouth with a playing on words , the complete ...
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... Laertes the natural carelessness of inno- cence , which cannot think such a code of cautions and prudences necessary to its own preservation . Ib . Speech of Polonius :-( in Stockdale's edi- tion NOTES ON HAMLET . 219.
... Laertes the natural carelessness of inno- cence , which cannot think such a code of cautions and prudences necessary to its own preservation . Ib . Speech of Polonius :-( in Stockdale's edi- tion NOTES ON HAMLET . 219.
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... Polonius : - — How prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows : -these blazes , daughter , & c . A spondee has , I doubt not , dropped out of the Either insert ' Go to ' after ' vows ; ' - text . Lends the tongue vows : Go to , these ...
... Polonius : - — How prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows : -these blazes , daughter , & c . A spondee has , I doubt not , dropped out of the Either insert ' Go to ' after ' vows ; ' - text . Lends the tongue vows : Go to , these ...
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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.