Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S.T. Coleridge, Volume 2W. Pickering, 1849 |
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... human self ; but the Gothic archi- tecture impresses the beholder with a sense of self- annihilation ; he becomes , as it were , a part of the _work_contemplated . An endless complexity and 6.34471 + B washe 6.533 1 variety are united ...
... human self ; but the Gothic archi- tecture impresses the beholder with a sense of self- annihilation ; he becomes , as it were , a part of the _work_contemplated . An endless complexity and 6.34471 + B washe 6.533 1 variety are united ...
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... human beings , and thence depriving them of their dignity , and gradually giving rise to scepticism and ridicule . But no statue , no artifi- cial emblem , could satisfy the Northman's mind ; the dark wild imagery of nature which ...
... human beings , and thence depriving them of their dignity , and gradually giving rise to scepticism and ridicule . But no statue , no artifi- cial emblem , could satisfy the Northman's mind ; the dark wild imagery of nature which ...
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... human race ; which poisons Ariosto- ( for that I may not speak oftener than necessary of so odious a subject , I mention it here once for all ) which interposes a painful mixture in the humour of Chaucer 22 COURSE OF LECTURES .
... human race ; which poisons Ariosto- ( for that I may not speak oftener than necessary of so odious a subject , I mention it here once for all ) which interposes a painful mixture in the humour of Chaucer 22 COURSE OF LECTURES .
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... humanity , in which some element has become so predominant as to destroy the health of the mind ; whereas Chaucer's are rather repre- sentatives of classes of manners . He is therefore more led to individualize in a mere personal sense ...
... humanity , in which some element has become so predominant as to destroy the health of the mind ; whereas Chaucer's are rather repre- sentatives of classes of manners . He is therefore more led to individualize in a mere personal sense ...
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... is syngenesia ; each character has , indeed , a life of its own , and is an individuum of itself , but vet an organ of the whole , as the heart in the human Jeddoes h.87 609 619 body . Shakspeare was a great 2 E LECTURE VII . 49.
... is syngenesia ; each character has , indeed , a life of its own , and is an individuum of itself , but vet an organ of the whole , as the heart in the human Jeddoes h.87 609 619 body . Shakspeare was a great 2 E LECTURE VII . 49.
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Page 11 - ... When I enter a Greek Church, my eye is charmed, and my mind elated ; I feel exalted, and proud that I am a man. But the Gothic art is sublime. On entering a cathedral, I am filled with devotion and with awe ; I am lost to the actualities that surround me, and my whole being expands into the infinite ; earth and air, nature and art, all swell up into eternity, and the only sensible impression left, is