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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... harmony and concord of the higher nature with the animal , as with its ruling principle and its acknowledged regent . The understanding and practical reason are represented as the willing slaves of the senses and appetites , and of the ...
... harmony and concord of the higher nature with the animal , as with its ruling principle and its acknowledged regent . The understanding and practical reason are represented as the willing slaves of the senses and appetites , and of the ...
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... harmony and counterpoint . The Greeks idolized the finite , and therefore were the masters of all grace , elegance , proportion , fancy , dignity , majesty -of whatever , in short , is capable of being defi- nitely conveyed by defined ...
... harmony and counterpoint . The Greeks idolized the finite , and therefore were the masters of all grace , elegance , proportion , fancy , dignity , majesty -of whatever , in short , is capable of being defi- nitely conveyed by defined ...
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... harmony . If we consider great exquisiteness of language and sweetness of metre alone , it is impossible to deny to Pope the character of a delightful writer ; but whether he be a poet , must depend upon our defi- nition of the word ...
... harmony . If we consider great exquisiteness of language and sweetness of metre alone , it is impossible to deny to Pope the character of a delightful writer ; but whether he be a poet , must depend upon our defi- nition of the word ...
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... modern drama might be illustrated by a parallel of the ancient and modern music ; -the one consisting of melody arising from a succession only of pleasing sounds , -the modern embracing harmony also SHAKSPEARE'S DRAMAS . 71.
... modern drama might be illustrated by a parallel of the ancient and modern music ; -the one consisting of melody arising from a succession only of pleasing sounds , -the modern embracing harmony also SHAKSPEARE'S DRAMAS . 71.
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... harmony also , the result of combination and the effect of a whole . ( 1 ) I have said , and I say it again , that great as was the genius of Shakspeare , his judgment was at least equal to it . Of this any one will be con- vinced , who ...
... harmony also , the result of combination and the effect of a whole . ( 1 ) I have said , and I say it again , that great as was the genius of Shakspeare , his judgment was at least equal to it . Of this any one will be con- vinced , who ...
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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.