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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... unity , or causing a division of the parts . The sportive ideal , on the contrary , consists in the per- fect harmony and concord of the higher nature with the animal , as with its ruling principle and its acknowledged regent . The ...
... unity , or causing a division of the parts . The sportive ideal , on the contrary , consists in the per- fect harmony and concord of the higher nature with the animal , as with its ruling principle and its acknowledged regent . The ...
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... unity of place ; not on the score of any supposed improba- bility , which the understanding or common sense might detect in a change of place ; -but because the senses themselves put it out of the power of any imagination to conceive a ...
... unity of place ; not on the score of any supposed improba- bility , which the understanding or common sense might detect in a change of place ; -but because the senses themselves put it out of the power of any imagination to conceive a ...
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... unity ( as ignorantly ridiculed as extolled ) was grounded on no essential principle of reason , but arose out of circumstances which the poet could not remove , and therefore took up into the form of the drama , and co - organised it ...
... unity ( as ignorantly ridiculed as extolled ) was grounded on no essential principle of reason , but arose out of circumstances which the poet could not remove , and therefore took up into the form of the drama , and co - organised it ...
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... unity of place and unity of time , the observance of which must either confine the drama to as few subjects as may be counted on the fingers , or involve gross improbabilities , far more striking than the violation would have caused ...
... unity of place and unity of time , the observance of which must either confine the drama to as few subjects as may be counted on the fingers , or involve gross improbabilities , far more striking than the violation would have caused ...
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... unity , and thereby the reduction of the spirit to its principle and fountain , who is alone truly one . Various are the workings of this the greatest faculty of the human mind , both passionate and tranquil . In its tranquil and purely ...
... unity , and thereby the reduction of the spirit to its principle and fountain , who is alone truly one . Various are the workings of this the greatest faculty of the human mind , both passionate and tranquil . In its tranquil and purely ...
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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.
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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.