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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... Too much was given , all so weighty and brilliant as to preclude a chance of its being all received , so that it not seldom passed over the hearer's mind like a roar of -- many waters . CONTENTS . VOL . I. Page E XTRACT from a.
... Too much was given , all so weighty and brilliant as to preclude a chance of its being all received , so that it not seldom passed over the hearer's mind like a roar of -- many waters . CONTENTS . VOL . I. Page E XTRACT from a.
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... 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 all this , together with something else . What is this ? It is that pleasur- able emotion , that peculiar ...
... 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 all this , together with something else . What is this ? It is that pleasur- able emotion , that peculiar ...
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... mind in respect of the fancy and the imagination . Hence is produced a more vivid reflection of the truths of nature and of the human heart , united with a constant activity modifying and correcting these truths by that sort of ...
... mind in respect of the fancy and the imagination . Hence is produced a more vivid reflection of the truths of nature and of the human heart , united with a constant activity modifying and correcting these truths by that sort of ...
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... mind , -by the spontaneous activity of his imagination and fancy , and by whatever else with these reveals itself in ... minds . * * Sir John Davies on the Immortality of the Soul , sect . iv . The words and lines in italics are ...
... mind , -by the spontaneous activity of his imagination and fancy , and by whatever else with these reveals itself in ... minds . * * Sir John Davies on the Immortality of the Soul , sect . iv . The words and lines in italics are ...
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... mind , -attaining its real end , as an entire contrast , most perfectly , the greater the display is of intellectual wealth squan- dered in the wantonness of sport without an object , and the more abundant the life and vivacity in the ...
... mind , -attaining its real end , as an entire contrast , most perfectly , the greater the display is of intellectual wealth squan- dered in the wantonness of sport without an object , and the more abundant the life and vivacity in the ...
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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.