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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... immediately takes place before him , and escapes from him , is indicative of weakness . But as in Homer all the deities are in armour , even Venus ; so in Shakspeare all the characters are strong . Hence real folly and dulness are made ...
... immediately takes place before him , and escapes from him , is indicative of weakness . But as in Homer all the deities are in armour , even Venus ; so in Shakspeare all the characters are strong . Hence real folly and dulness are made ...
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... immediately recipient , to the suggestion of guilt , by associating the proposed crime with something ludicrous or out of place , - something not habitually matter of reverence . By this kind of sophistry the imagination and fancy are ...
... immediately recipient , to the suggestion of guilt , by associating the proposed crime with something ludicrous or out of place , - something not habitually matter of reverence . By this kind of sophistry the imagination and fancy are ...
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... immediately , Dumain takes up the question for him , and , after he and Longaville are answered , Biron , with evident pro- priety , says ; - Studies my mistress ? & c . MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . ACT i . sc . 1 . Her . O cross ! too ...
... immediately , Dumain takes up the question for him , and , after he and Longaville are answered , Biron , with evident pro- priety , says ; - Studies my mistress ? & c . MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . ACT i . sc . 1 . Her . O cross ! too ...
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... immediately following . The epithet seeming ' becomes so extremely improper after the whole number had been positively called ❝ so many mermaids . ' 6 TIMON OF ATHENS . ACT I. sc . 1 . Tim . The man is honest . Old Ath . Therefore he ...
... immediately following . The epithet seeming ' becomes so extremely improper after the whole number had been positively called ❝ so many mermaids . ' 6 TIMON OF ATHENS . ACT I. sc . 1 . Tim . The man is honest . Old Ath . Therefore he ...
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... immediately necessary to the carrying on of the plot . Ib . sc . 4 . Rom . Good morrow to you both . What counterfeit did I give you ? & c . Compare again , Romeo's half - exerted , and half real , ease of mind with his first manner ...
... immediately necessary to the carrying on of the plot . Ib . sc . 4 . Rom . Good morrow to you both . What counterfeit did I give you ? & c . Compare again , Romeo's half - exerted , and half real , ease of mind with his first manner ...
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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.