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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... transcendental character , which , as a general rule , have been avoided : the truth is , that they were sometimes found so indissolubly intertwined with the more popular matter which preceded and fol- lowed , viii PREFACE .
... transcendental character , which , as a general rule , have been avoided : the truth is , that they were sometimes found so indissolubly intertwined with the more popular matter which preceded and fol- lowed , viii PREFACE .
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... truth ; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate plea- sure . This definition is useful ; but as it would include novels and other works of fiction , which yet we do not call poems , there must be some ...
... truth ; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate plea- sure . This definition is useful ; but as it would include novels and other works of fiction , which yet we do not call poems , there must be some ...
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... truths of nature and of the human 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 ...
... truths of nature and of the human 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 ...
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... truth of character , not so far indeed as that a bona fide individual should be described or imagined , but yet so that the features which give interest and perma- nence to the class should be individualized . The old tragedy moved in ...
... truth of character , not so far indeed as that a bona fide individual should be described or imagined , but yet so that the features which give interest and perma- nence to the class should be individualized . The old tragedy moved in ...
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... truth they were ) the ideal representatives of the real audience , and of the poet himself in his own character , assuming the supposed impressions made by the drama , in order to direct and rule them . But when the chorus it- self ...
... truth they were ) the ideal representatives of the real audience , and of the poet himself in his own character , assuming the supposed impressions made by the drama , in order to direct and rule them . But when the chorus it- self ...
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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...