Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S.T. Coleridge, Volume 1William Pickering, 1849 |
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... comparing it with the La- · tin , we find it less perfect in simplicity and relation -the privileges of a language formed by the mere attraction of homogeneous parts ; -but yet more rich , more expressive and various , as one formed by ...
... comparing it with the La- · tin , we find it less perfect in simplicity and relation -the privileges of a language formed by the mere attraction of homogeneous parts ; -but yet more rich , more expressive and various , as one formed by ...
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... compare with Shakspeare under each of these heads all or any of the writers in prose and verse that have ever lived ! Who , that is competent to judge , doubts the result ? -And ask your own hearts , -ask your own com- mon - sense to ...
... compare with Shakspeare under each of these heads all or any of the writers in prose and verse that have ever lived ! Who , that is competent to judge , doubts the result ? -And ask your own hearts , -ask your own com- mon - sense to ...
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... comparing different poets with each other , we should inquire which have brought into the fullest play our imagi- nation and our reason , or have created the greatest excitement and produced the completest harmony . If we consider great ...
... comparing different poets with each other , we should inquire which have brought into the fullest play our imagi- nation and our reason , or have created the greatest excitement and produced the completest harmony . If we consider great ...
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... comparing Fletcher with Shakspeare , writes thus : " Fletcher's ideas moved slow ; his versification , though sweet is tedious , it stops at every turn ; he lays line upon line , making up one after the other , adding image to image so ...
... comparing Fletcher with Shakspeare , writes thus : " Fletcher's ideas moved slow ; his versification , though sweet is tedious , it stops at every turn ; he lays line upon line , making up one after the other , adding image to image so ...
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... Compare this with Sir Thomas Brown's aristocracy of spirit . Act . i . sc . 1. Coriolanus ' speech : - He that depends Upon your favours , swims with fins of lead , And hews down oaks with rushes . Hang yo ! Trust ye ? I suspect that ...
... Compare this with Sir Thomas Brown's aristocracy of spirit . Act . i . sc . 1. Coriolanus ' speech : - He that depends Upon your favours , swims with fins of lead , And hews down oaks with rushes . Hang yo ! Trust ye ? I suspect that ...
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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 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 96 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 159 - 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 144 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Page 234 - There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
Page 41 - We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished?
Page 198 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers,* by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Page 249 - I'll devil-porter it no further: I had thought to have let in some of all professions, that go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.
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...