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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... Plays .. Love's Labor's Lost . Midsummer Night's Dream . Comedy of Errors .. As You Like It . Twelfth Night ... All's Well that Ends Well Merry Wives of Windsor . Measure for Measure Cymbeline . Titus Andronicus 50 56 64 67 72 79 84 87 ...
... Plays .. Love's Labor's Lost . Midsummer Night's Dream . Comedy of Errors .. As You Like It . Twelfth Night ... All's Well that Ends Well Merry Wives of Windsor . Measure for Measure Cymbeline . Titus Andronicus 50 56 64 67 72 79 84 87 ...
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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 seems to me compatible with even the present subject to utter aloud ; though I am most desirous to suggest it ...
... 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 seems to me compatible with even the present subject to utter aloud ; though I am most desirous to suggest it ...
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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 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...