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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... expressions , the boldest images , the most re- condite allusions . Is it credible that the poets would , one and all , have been thus prodigal of the stores of art and genius , if they had known that in the representation the whole ...
... expressions , the boldest images , the most re- condite allusions . Is it credible that the poets would , one and all , have been thus prodigal of the stores of art and genius , if they had known that in the representation the whole ...
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... expressing the reality of it , and , as arbitrary language is an heir - loom of the human race , being itself a part of that which it manifests . What shall I deduce from the pre- ceding positions ? Even this , the appropriate , the ...
... expressing the reality of it , and , as arbitrary language is an heir - loom of the human race , being itself a part of that which it manifests . What shall I deduce from the pre- ceding positions ? Even this , the appropriate , the ...
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... expressions , as a mode of getting rid of their own uneasy feelings of inferiority to the good , and also , by making the good ridiculous , of rendering the transition of others to wickedness easy . Shakspeare never puts habitual scorn ...
... expressions , as a mode of getting rid of their own uneasy feelings of inferiority to the good , and also , by making the good ridiculous , of rendering the transition of others to wickedness easy . Shakspeare never puts habitual scorn ...
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... expressing it under the least expected property belonging to it , and this , again , rendered specially absurd by being applied to the most current subjects and oc- currences . The phrases and modes of combination in argument were ...
... expressing it under the least expected property belonging to it , and this , again , rendered specially absurd by being applied to the most current subjects and oc- currences . The phrases and modes of combination in argument were ...
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... expressions themselves constituting a further developement of that charac- ter : - Other slow arts entirely keep the brain : And therefore finding barren practisers , Scarce shew a harvest of their heavy toil : But love , first learned ...
... expressions themselves constituting a further developement of that charac- ter : - Other slow arts entirely keep the brain : And therefore finding barren practisers , Scarce shew a harvest of their heavy toil : But love , first learned ...
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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.