The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 4Harper & brothers, 1853 |
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... Plays . • 50 56 64 67 Notes on the Tempest Love's Labor's Lost • Midsummer Night's Dream . Comedy of Errors . 72 79 84 - 87 As You Like It . 87 • Twelfth Night . All's Well that Ends Well Merry Wives of Windsor .. Measure for Measure ...
... Plays . • 50 56 64 67 Notes on the Tempest Love's Labor's Lost • Midsummer Night's Dream . Comedy of Errors . 72 79 84 - 87 As You Like It . 87 • Twelfth Night . All's Well that Ends Well Merry Wives of Windsor .. Measure for Measure ...
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... play of those powers of mind , which are sponta- neous rather than voluntary , and in which the effort required bears no proportion to the activity enjoyed . This is the state which permits the production of a highly pleasurable whole ...
... play of those powers of mind , which are sponta- neous rather than voluntary , and in which the effort required bears no proportion to the activity enjoyed . This is the state which permits the production of a highly pleasurable whole ...
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... play of the ancients , with refer- ence to their ideal , does not hold out more glaring absurdities than any in Shakspeare ? On the Greek plan a man could more easily be a poet than a dramatist ; upon our plan more easily a drama- tist ...
... play of the ancients , with refer- ence to their ideal , does not hold out more glaring absurdities than any in Shakspeare ? On the Greek plan a man could more easily be a poet than a dramatist ; upon our plan more easily a drama- tist ...
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... play and all the interest of our intellectual and moral being , till it leads us to a feeling and an object more awful than it seerns to me compatible with even the present subject to utter aloud ; though I am most desirous to suggest ...
... play and all the interest of our intellectual and moral being , till it leads us to a feeling and an object more awful than it seerns to me compatible with even the present subject to utter aloud ; though I am most desirous to suggest ...
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... play . Hence it is that so many dull pieces have had a decent run , only because nothing unusual above , or absurd below , medi- ocrity furnished an occasion , -a spark for the explosive materials collected behind the orchestra . But it ...
... play . Hence it is that so many dull pieces have had a decent run , only because nothing unusual above , or absurd below , medi- ocrity furnished an occasion , -a spark for the explosive materials collected behind the orchestra . But it ...
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Page 169 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
Page 171 - Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. Lady M. Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since, And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou...
Page 114 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Page 139 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,— often the surfeit of our own behavior,— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
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.
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 106 - ... tawny front : his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper', And is become the bellows, and the fan, To cool a gipsy's lust.
Page 22 - ... 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 127 - 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? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 161 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.