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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... heart , united with a constant activity modifying and correcting these truths by that sort of pleasurable emotion , which the exertion of all our faculties gives in a certain degree ; but which can only be felt in perfection under the ...
... heart , united with a constant activity modifying and correcting these truths by that sort of pleasurable emotion , which the exertion of all our faculties gives in a certain degree ; but which can only be felt in perfection under the ...
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... heart , and placing in the centre of the whole being the germs of noble and manlike actions , would have been the common diet of the intellect instead . For the first condition , simpli- city , -while , on the one hand , it 8 DEFINITION ...
... heart , and placing in the centre of the whole being the germs of noble and manlike actions , would have been the common diet of the intellect instead . For the first condition , simpli- city , -while , on the one hand , it 8 DEFINITION ...
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... heart that their final cause is not to be discovered in the limits of mere mortal life , and force us into a presentiment , how- ever dim , of a state in which those struggles of in- ward free will with outward necessity , which form ...
... heart that their final cause is not to be discovered in the limits of mere mortal life , and force us into a presentiment , how- ever dim , of a state in which those struggles of in- ward free will with outward necessity , which form ...
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... heart , under all the trials and circumstances that most concern us , than was known or guessed at by Æs- chylus , Sophocles , or Euripides ; -and at the same time we learn to account for , and — relatively to the author - perceive the ...
... heart , under all the trials and circumstances that most concern us , than was known or guessed at by Æs- chylus , Sophocles , or Euripides ; -and at the same time we learn to account for , and — relatively to the author - perceive the ...
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... heart or head permanently , endeavour to call forth the momentary affections . There ought never to be more pain than is compatible with co - existing pleasure , and to be amply repaid by thought . Shakspeare found the infant stage ...
... heart or head permanently , endeavour to call forth the momentary affections . There ought never to be more pain than is compatible with co - existing pleasure , and to be amply repaid by thought . Shakspeare found the infant stage ...
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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 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.
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 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...