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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... dramatic literature , either written by my father's own hand , or taken down by others from his lectures . Of matter relating to the drama , and to poetry , however , there was not quite enough to fill a second volume ; I have there ...
... dramatic literature , either written by my father's own hand , or taken down by others from his lectures . Of matter relating to the drama , and to poetry , however , there was not quite enough to fill a second volume ; I have there ...
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... Drama Progress of the Drama The Drama generally , and Public Taste Shakespeare , a Poet generally • Shakespeare's Judgment equal to his Genius Recapitulation , and Summary of the Charac- teristics of Shakespeare's Dramas . 1 6 6 11 • 22 ...
... Drama Progress of the Drama The Drama generally , and Public Taste Shakespeare , a Poet generally • Shakespeare's Judgment equal to his Genius Recapitulation , and Summary of the Charac- teristics of Shakespeare's Dramas . 1 6 6 11 • 22 ...
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... Drama , and the Stage . DEFINITION OF POETRY . OETRY is not the proper antithesis to prose , POET but to science . Poetry is opposed to science , and prose to metre . The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement , or ...
... Drama , and the Stage . DEFINITION OF POETRY . OETRY is not the proper antithesis to prose , POET but to science . Poetry is opposed to science , and prose to metre . The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement , or ...
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... fates Steal access thro ' our senses to our minds . * * Sir John Davies on the Immortality of the Soul , sect . iv . The words and lines in italics are substituted to apply 11 GREEK DRAMA . ( c ) * T is 10 DEFINITION OF POETRY .
... fates Steal access thro ' our senses to our minds . * * Sir John Davies on the Immortality of the Soul , sect . iv . The words and lines in italics are substituted to apply 11 GREEK DRAMA . ( c ) * T is 10 DEFINITION OF POETRY .
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... ἐξεγρόμενος δὲ ἰδεῖν τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους καθεύδοντας καὶ οἰχομένους , ̓Αγάθωνα δὲ καὶ ̓Αριστοφάνην καὶ Σωκράτη ἔτι μόνους ἐγρηγορέναι , καὶ πίνειν ἐκ φιάλης μεγάλης ἐπὶ- this was directly repugnant to the entire theory of the Greek Drama •
... ἐξεγρόμενος δὲ ἰδεῖν τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους καθεύδοντας καὶ οἰχομένους , ̓Αγάθωνα δὲ καὶ ̓Αριστοφάνην καὶ Σωκράτη ἔτι μόνους ἐγρηγορέναι , καὶ πίνειν ἐκ φιάλης μεγάλης ἐπὶ- this was directly repugnant to the entire theory of the Greek Drama •
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