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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... speaking of his note to the Fall of Robespierre , published in the former Vol . i . of the Literary Remains , shewing that the second and third acts were by Mr. Southey . + This reference is to his remark on an extract from Crashaw's ...
... speaking of his note to the Fall of Robespierre , published in the former Vol . i . of the Literary Remains , shewing that the second and third acts were by Mr. Southey . + This reference is to his remark on an extract from Crashaw's ...
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... Speaking of poetry , he says , as in a parenthesis , " which is simple , sensuous , passionate . " How awful is the power of words ! -fearful often in their consequences when merely felt , not understood ; but most awful when both felt ...
... Speaking of poetry , he says , as in a parenthesis , " which is simple , sensuous , passionate . " How awful is the power of words ! -fearful often in their consequences when merely felt , not understood ; but most awful when both felt ...
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... speak reverently , does God choose idiots by whom to convey divine truths to man ? ( h ) RECAPITULATION , AND SUMMARY Of the Characteristics of Shakspeare's Dramas . * N lectures , of which amusement forms a large IN part of the object ...
... speak reverently , does God choose idiots by whom to convey divine truths to man ? ( h ) RECAPITULATION , AND SUMMARY Of the Characteristics of Shakspeare's Dramas . * N lectures , of which amusement forms a large IN part of the object ...
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... speak like a wise man and a great wit , and yet so as to give a vivid representation of a veritable fool , -hic labor , hoc opus est . A drunken constable is not uncommon , nor hard to draw ; but see and examine what goes to make up a ...
... speak like a wise man and a great wit , and yet so as to give a vivid representation of a veritable fool , -hic labor , hoc opus est . A drunken constable is not uncommon , nor hard to draw ; but see and examine what goes to make up a ...
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... speak in such circumstances ? His comic cha- racters are also peculiar . A drunken constable was not uncommon ; but he makes folly a vehicle for wit , as in Dogberry : every thing is a sub - stratum See the Notes on Hamlet , which ...
... speak in such circumstances ? His comic cha- racters are also peculiar . A drunken constable was not uncommon ; but he makes folly a vehicle for wit , as in Dogberry : every thing is a sub - stratum See the Notes on Hamlet , which ...
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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.