Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge, Volume 1W. Pickering, 1849 |
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... criticism and general literature , was entrusted to the care of the present Editor . The volumes now offered to the public are the first results of that arrangement . They must in any case stand in need of much indulgence from the ...
... criticism and general literature , was entrusted to the care of the present Editor . The volumes now offered to the public are the first results of that arrangement . They must in any case stand in need of much indulgence from the ...
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... criticism . This was most strikingly evidenced in the coincidence between my lectures and those of Schlegel ; such , and so close , that it was fortunate for my moral reputation that I had not only from five to seven hundred ear wit ...
... criticism . This was most strikingly evidenced in the coincidence between my lectures and those of Schlegel ; such , and so close , that it was fortunate for my moral reputation that I had not only from five to seven hundred ear wit ...
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... critics , and contrary to all their experi- ence , it is evident that Plato must have fixed the eye of his contemplation on the innermost essen- tials of the drama , abstracted from the forms of age or country . In another passage he ...
... critics , and contrary to all their experi- ence , it is evident that Plato must have fixed the eye of his contemplation on the innermost essen- tials of the drama , abstracted from the forms of age or country . In another passage he ...
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... critic said that tragedy was the flight or elevation of life , comedy ( that of Menander ) its arrangement or ordonnance . ( 5 ) - Add to these features a portrait - like truth of character , not so far indeed as that a bona fide ...
... critic said that tragedy was the flight or elevation of life , comedy ( that of Menander ) its arrangement or ordonnance . ( 5 ) - Add to these features a portrait - like truth of character , not so far indeed as that a bona fide ...
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... been among critics , who have followed with the eye of the imagination the impe- rishable yet ever wandering spirit of poetry through its various metempsychoses , and consequent meta- morphoses ; -or PROGRESS OF THE DRAMA . 31.
... been among critics , who have followed with the eye of the imagination the impe- rishable yet ever wandering spirit of poetry through its various metempsychoses , and consequent meta- morphoses ; -or PROGRESS OF THE DRAMA . 31.
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Page 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.
Page 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...
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 232 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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...