The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 4Harper & Brothers, 1854 |
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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 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 161 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.
Page 83 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it ; never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 168 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
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 158 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me.
Page 41 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
Page 22 - ... while it blends and harmonizes the natural and the artificial, still subordinates art to nature; the manner to the matter; and our admiration of the poet to our sympathy with the poetry.
Page 180 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions; but we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion.
Page 293 - Or se' tu quel Virgilio, e quella fonte, Che spande di parlar si largo fiume? Risposi lui con vergognosa fronte. O degli altri poeti onore e lume, Vagliami il lungo studio e il grande amore, Che m' ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume. Tu se...