The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 4Harper & Brothers, 1858 |
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... contents of the following pages - the Editor commits the reliques of a great man to the indulgent considera- tion of the Public . Lincoln's Inn , August 11 , 1836 . } L'ENVOY . He was one who with long and large PREFACE . xi.
... contents of the following pages - the Editor commits the reliques of a great man to the indulgent considera- tion of the Public . Lincoln's Inn , August 11 , 1836 . } L'ENVOY . He was one who with long and large PREFACE . xi.
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... tion ; but for the words , illustrations , & c . , I know almost as little as any one of the audience ( that is , those of any thing like the same education with myself ) what they will be five minutes be- fore the lecture begins . Such ...
... tion ; but for the words , illustrations , & c . , I know almost as little as any one of the audience ( that is , those of any thing like the same education with myself ) what they will be five minutes be- fore the lecture begins . Such ...
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... tion , which yet we do not call poems , there must be some addi- tional character by which poetry is not only divided from oppo- sites , but likewise distinguished from disparate , though similar , modes of composition . Now how is this ...
... tion , which yet we do not call poems , there must be some addi- tional character by which poetry is not only divided from oppo- sites , but likewise distinguished from disparate , though similar , modes of composition . Now how is this ...
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... original argument by breaking the connec- tion.-Ed. The Notes to this Essay , to which the numbers refer , are placed at the end of the volume . all things , genuine prophet and anticipator as he was 22 22 GREEK DRAMA . Greek Drama.
... original argument by breaking the connec- tion.-Ed. The Notes to this Essay , to which the numbers refer , are placed at the end of the volume . all things , genuine prophet and anticipator as he was 22 22 GREEK DRAMA . Greek Drama.
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... tion on the innermost essentials of the drama , abstracted from the forms of age or country . In another passage he even adds the reason , namely , that opposites illustrate each other's nature , and in their struggle draw forth the ...
... tion on the innermost essentials of the drama , abstracted from the forms of age or country . In another passage he even adds the reason , namely , that opposites illustrate each other's nature , and in their struggle draw forth the ...
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Page 120 - 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 161 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.
Page 132 - HUNG be the heavens with black , yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page 171 - 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!
Page 169 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
Page 127 - No matter where. Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
Page 82 - 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...
Page 363 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his newborn blisses, A six years
Page 114 - 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 164 - I do not think so ; since he went into France, I have been in continual practice ; I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart ; but it is no matter.