The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological OpinionsHarper & brothers, 1858 |
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... living whole . ( 8 ) The Greek tragedy may rather be compared to our serious opera than to the tragedies of Shakspeare ; nevertheless , the difference is far greater than the likeness . In the opera all is subordinated to the music ...
... living whole . ( 8 ) The Greek tragedy may rather be compared to our serious opera than to the tragedies of Shakspeare ; nevertheless , the difference is far greater than the likeness . In the opera all is subordinated to the music ...
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... living characters introduced under their own names ; and no doubt , their ordinary dress , manner , person and voice were closely mimicked . In less favorable states of society , as that of England in the middle ages , the beginnings of ...
... living characters introduced under their own names ; and no doubt , their ordinary dress , manner , person and voice were closely mimicked . In less favorable states of society , as that of England in the middle ages , the beginnings of ...
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... living comment and interpretation , it must remain forever a sealed volume , a deep well without a wheel or a windlass ; —it seems to me a pardonable enthusiasm to steal away from sober likelihood , and share in so rich a feast in the ...
... living comment and interpretation , it must remain forever a sealed volume , a deep well without a wheel or a windlass ; —it seems to me a pardonable enthusiasm to steal away from sober likelihood , and share in so rich a feast in the ...
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... living powers , must of necessity circum- scribe itself by rules , were it only to unite power with beauty . It must embody in order to reveal itself ; but a living body is of necessity an organized one ; and what is organization but ...
... living powers , must of necessity circum- scribe itself by rules , were it only to unite power with beauty . It must embody in order to reveal itself ; but a living body is of necessity an organized one ; and what is organization but ...
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... living poet must surely write , not for the ages past , but for that in which he lives , and those which are to follow , it is , on the one hand , natural that he should not violate , and on the other , necessary that he should not ...
... living poet must surely write , not for the ages past , but for that in which he lives , and those which are to follow , it is , on the one hand , natural that he should not violate , and on the other , necessary that he should not ...
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Page 81 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 470 - 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 363 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses, A six years
Page 161 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.
Page 132 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse. We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Page 115 - How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! which their keepers call A lightning before death: O, how may I Call this a lightning!
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 42 - O fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood: But now my oat proceeds, And listens to the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea, He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain?
Page 49 - Even as the sun, with purple-colour'd face, Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn, Rose-cheek'd Adonis hied him to the chase: Hunting he loved, but love he laughed to scorn. Sick-thoughted Venus makes amain unto him, And like a bold-faced suitor 'gins to woo him.
Page 83 - To move wild laughter in the throat of death ? It cannot be ; it is impossible : Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. Ros. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it...