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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... represented to us most clearly in the plastic art , or statuary ; where the perfection of outward form is a symbol of the per- fection of an inward idea ; where the body is wholly penetrated by the soul , and spiritualized even to a ...
... represented to us most clearly in the plastic art , or statuary ; where the perfection of outward form is a symbol of the per- fection of an inward idea ; where the body is wholly penetrated by the soul , and spiritualized even to a ...
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... it indemnified the understanding in appealing to the judgment for the probability of the scenes represented . The ancients themselves acknowledged the new comedy as an exact copy of real life . The grammarian , Aristo- 1 C GREEK DRAMA . 17.
... it indemnified the understanding in appealing to the judgment for the probability of the scenes represented . The ancients themselves acknowledged the new comedy as an exact copy of real life . The grammarian , Aristo- 1 C GREEK DRAMA . 17.
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... represented the more distant objects to the eye of the spectator - a demonstrative proof , that this alternately extolled and ridiculed unity ( as ignorantly ridiculed as extolled ) was grounded on no essential principle of reason , but ...
... represented the more distant objects to the eye of the spectator - a demonstrative proof , that this alternately extolled and ridiculed unity ( as ignorantly ridiculed as extolled ) was grounded on no essential principle of reason , but ...
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... represented them ; but to this in the real mask we must add the thinness of the substance and the exquisite fitting on to the head of the actor ; so that not only were the very eyes painted with a single opening left for the pupil of ...
... represented them ; but to this in the real mask we must add the thinness of the substance and the exquisite fitting on to the head of the actor ; so that not only were the very eyes painted with a single opening left for the pupil of ...
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... representing external nature and human thoughts , both relatively to human affections , so as to cause the production of as great immediate plea- sure in each part , as is compatible with the largest possible sum of pleasure on the ...
... representing external nature and human thoughts , both relatively to human affections , so as to cause the production of as great immediate plea- sure in each part , as is compatible with the largest possible sum of pleasure on 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.