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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... spirits , partly from the wish to possess copies that might afterwards be marketable among the publishers , I have previously written the lecture ; but before I had proceeded twenty minutes , I have been obliged to push the MS . away ...
... spirits , partly from the wish to possess copies that might afterwards be marketable among the publishers , I have previously written the lecture ; but before I had proceeded twenty minutes , I have been obliged to push the MS . away ...
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... spirit by sublimation strange , As fire converts to fire the things it burns- As we our food into our nature change ! From their gross matter she abstracts their forms , And draws a kind of quintessence from things , Which to her proper ...
... spirit by sublimation strange , As fire converts to fire the things it burns- As we our food into our nature change ! From their gross matter she abstracts their forms , And draws a kind of quintessence from things , Which to her proper ...
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... spirit of the Greek arts than their comedy as opposed to their tragedy . But as the immediate struggle of contraries supposes an arena com- mon to both , so both were alike ideal ; that is , the comedy of Aristophanes rose to as great a ...
... spirit of the Greek arts than their comedy as opposed to their tragedy . But as the immediate struggle of contraries supposes an arena com- mon to both , so both were alike ideal ; that is , the comedy of Aristophanes rose to as great a ...
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... spirit and self - subsistence , and subject to that uncon- nection by contradictions of the inward being , to which all folly - is owing . The ideal of earnest poetry consists in the union and harmoni- ous melting down , and fusion of ...
... spirit and self - subsistence , and subject to that uncon- nection by contradictions of the inward being , to which all folly - is owing . The ideal of earnest poetry consists in the union and harmoni- ous melting down , and fusion of ...
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... spirit of Christianity , which in its most corrupt form still breathed general humanity , whenever controversies of faith were not concerned , had done away the cruel combats of the gladiators , and the loss of the dis- tant provinces ...
... spirit of Christianity , which in its most corrupt form still breathed general humanity , whenever controversies of faith were not concerned , had done away the cruel combats of the gladiators , and the loss of the dis- tant provinces ...
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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...