Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S.T. Coleridge, Volume 1William Pickering, 1849 |
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... ghost Seeking out Romeo , that did spit his body Upon a rapier's point : -Stay , Tybalt , stay ! — Romeo , I come ! this do I drink to thee . Shakspeare provides for the finest decencies . It would have been too bold a thing for a girl ...
... ghost Seeking out Romeo , that did spit his body Upon a rapier's point : -Stay , Tybalt , stay ! — Romeo , I come ! this do I drink to thee . Shakspeare provides for the finest decencies . It would have been too bold a thing for a girl ...
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... ghosts and visions , as in that of Brutus , of Archbishop Cran- mer , that of Benvenuto Cellini recorded by himself , and the vision of Galileo communicated by him to i his favourite pupil ... ghost - seers were NOTES ON HAMLET . 211.
... ghosts and visions , as in that of Brutus , of Archbishop Cran- mer , that of Benvenuto Cellini recorded by himself , and the vision of Galileo communicated by him to i his favourite pupil ... ghost - seers were NOTES ON HAMLET . 211.
Page 212
... ghost - seers were in a state of cold or chilling damp from without , and of anxiety inwardly . It has been with all of them as with Francisco on his guard , — alone , in - the depth and silence of the night ; - ; - ' ' twas bitter cold ...
... ghost - seers were in a state of cold or chilling damp from without , and of anxiety inwardly . It has been with all of them as with Francisco on his guard , — alone , in - the depth and silence of the night ; - ; - ' ' twas bitter cold ...
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... ghost , and that , too , of a ghost which had appeared twice before at the very same hour . In the deep feeling which Ber- nardo has of the solemn nature of what he is about to relate , he makes an effort to master his own imaginative ...
... ghost , and that , too , of a ghost which had appeared twice before at the very same hour . In the deep feeling which Ber- nardo has of the solemn nature of what he is about to relate , he makes an effort to master his own imaginative ...
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... Ghost dramatically , let his anti - ghostism have been as strong as Sampson against other ghosts less powerfully raised . Act i . sc . 1 . Mur . Good now , sit down , and tell me , he that knows , Why this same strict and most observant ...
... Ghost dramatically , let his anti - ghostism have been as strong as Sampson against other ghosts less powerfully raised . Act i . sc . 1 . Mur . Good now , sit down , and tell me , he that knows , Why this same strict and most observant ...
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Page 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...
Page 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?
Page 96 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 159 - For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night, Whiter than new snow on a raven's back. Come, gentle night: come, loving, black-brow'd night Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 144 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Page 234 - There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
Page 41 - We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished?
Page 198 - 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 : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers,* by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Page 249 - I'll devil-porter it no further: I had thought to have let in some of all professions, that go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.
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...