Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge, Volumen1W. Pickering, 1849 |
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... play of those powers of mind , which are spontaneous rather than voluntary , and in which the effort required bears no proportion to the activity enjoyed . This is the state which permits the production of a highly pleasurable whole ...
... play of those powers of mind , which are spontaneous rather than voluntary , and in which the effort required bears no proportion to the activity enjoyed . This is the state which permits the production of a highly pleasurable whole ...
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... play of the ancients , with refe- rence to their ideal , does not hold out more glaring absurdities than any in Shakspeare ? On the Greek plan a man could more easily be a poet than a dramatist ; upon our plan more easily a dramatist ...
... play of the ancients , with refe- rence to their ideal , does not hold out more glaring absurdities than any in Shakspeare ? On the Greek plan a man could more easily be a poet than a dramatist ; upon our plan more easily a dramatist ...
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... play and all the inter- est of our intellectual and moral being , till it leads us to a feeling and an object more awful than it seems to me compatible with even the present sub- ject to utter aloud , though I am most desirous to ...
... play and all the inter- est of our intellectual and moral being , till it leads us to a feeling and an object more awful than it seems to me compatible with even the present sub- ject to utter aloud , though I am most desirous to ...
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... play . Hence it is that so many dull pieces have had a decent run , only because nothing unusual above , or absurd be- low , mediocrity furnished an occasion , -- a spark for the explosive materials collected behind the or- chestra ...
... play . Hence it is that so many dull pieces have had a decent run , only because nothing unusual above , or absurd be- low , mediocrity furnished an occasion , -- a spark for the explosive materials collected behind the or- chestra ...
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... play of words in the fourth line . The whole stanza presents at once the time , the appearance of the morning , and the two persons distinctly characterized , and in six simple verses puts the reader in possession of the whole argu ...
... play of words in the fourth line . The whole stanza presents at once the time , the appearance of the morning , and the two persons distinctly characterized , and in six simple verses puts the reader in possession of the whole argu ...
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Página 168 - 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...
Página 250 - 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.
Página 42 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Página 356 - And let me speak, to the yet unknowing world, How these things came about : so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts ; Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters ; Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause : And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads : all this can I Truly deliver.
Página 109 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Página 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...
Página 232 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.
Página 358 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprizes of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn away/ And lose the name of action.
Página 248 - Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!
Página 110 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...