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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... UPON SHAKSPEARE . AID SOME OF THE OLD POETS AND DRAMATISTS , WITH OTHER LITERARY REMAINS OF S. T. COLERIDGE , EDITED BY MRS . H. N. COLERIDGE . NEW YORK : HARPER & BROTHERS . 1854 . 1 TO JOSEPH HENRY GREEN , ESQ . , MEMBER.
... UPON SHAKSPEARE . AID SOME OF THE OLD POETS AND DRAMATISTS , WITH OTHER LITERARY REMAINS OF S. T. COLERIDGE , EDITED BY MRS . H. N. COLERIDGE . NEW YORK : HARPER & BROTHERS . 1854 . 1 TO JOSEPH HENRY GREEN , ESQ . , MEMBER.
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... Remains , first published by my late husband in 1836. It consists in great measure of notes on poetry and dramatic literature , either written by my father's own hand , or taken down by others from his lectures . Of matter re- lating to ...
... Remains , first published by my late husband in 1836. It consists in great measure of notes on poetry and dramatic literature , either written by my father's own hand , or taken down by others from his lectures . Of matter re- lating to ...
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... S. C. The Preface of the original Editor of the Literary Remains is re - print- ed , with the exception of a passage not applicable to the present publication . PREFACE . MR . COLERIDGE by his will , dated viii ADVERTISEMENT .
... S. C. The Preface of the original Editor of the Literary Remains is re - print- ed , with the exception of a passage not applicable to the present publication . PREFACE . MR . COLERIDGE by his will , dated viii ADVERTISEMENT .
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... remains ; and at the same time the prep- aration for the press of such part of the materials as should con- sist of criticism and general literature , was intrusted to the care of the present Editor . The volume now offered to the ...
... remains ; and at the same time the prep- aration for the press of such part of the materials as should con- sist of criticism and general literature , was intrusted to the care of the present Editor . The volume now offered to the ...
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... but contramonitory and in reply to Dick Proof , Corrector . 438 Maxilian . Flight I .... 445 Notes .... 457 Notes to Lecture xiii . on Poesy or Art . 482 LITERARY REMAINS . : Extract from a Letter written by xvi CONTENTS .
... but contramonitory and in reply to Dick Proof , Corrector . 438 Maxilian . Flight I .... 445 Notes .... 457 Notes to Lecture xiii . on Poesy or Art . 482 LITERARY REMAINS . : Extract from a Letter written by xvi CONTENTS .
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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...