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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... expressed in that natural language which the contemplation of them would suggest to a pure and benevolent mind ; yet still neither we nor the writers call such a work a poem , though no work could deserve that name which did not include ...
... expressed in that natural language which the contemplation of them would suggest to a pure and benevolent mind ; yet still neither we nor the writers call such a work a poem , though no work could deserve that name which did not include ...
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... expressed for him , and their open avowals that he was their great master , entitle us to consider their dramas as of a middle species , between tragedy and comedy , not the tragi - comedy , or thing of hete- rogeneous parts , but a ...
... expressed for him , and their open avowals that he was their great master , entitle us to consider their dramas as of a middle species , between tragedy and comedy , not the tragi - comedy , or thing of hete- rogeneous parts , but a ...
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... expressed a similar thought : - : - Lastly , leaving the vulgar arguments , that by learning man excelleth man in that wherein man excelleth beasts ; that by learning man ascendeth to the heavens and their motions , where in body he ...
... expressed a similar thought : - : - Lastly , leaving the vulgar arguments , that by learning man excelleth man in that wherein man excelleth beasts ; that by learning man ascendeth to the heavens and their motions , where in body he ...
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... expressed , if it were meant to instance the effects , and unfold all the causes , of this disposition upon the moral , intellectual , and even physical character of a people , with its influences on domestic life and individual ...
... expressed , if it were meant to instance the effects , and unfold all the causes , of this disposition upon the moral , intellectual , and even physical character of a people , with its influences on domestic life and individual ...
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... expressed was not drawn from any set fashion , but from the profoundest depths of his moral being , and is therefore for all ages . THE - LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST . HE characters in this play are either imper- sonated out of Shakspeare's ...
... expressed was not drawn from any set fashion , but from the profoundest depths of his moral being , and is therefore for all ages . THE - LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST . HE characters in this play are either imper- sonated out of Shakspeare's ...
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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.