The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 4Harper & Brothers, 1853 |
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... thing that was not genuine . It is possible that some cases of mistake in this respect may have occurred . There may be one or two passages they can not well be more - printed in this volume which belong to other writers ; and if such ...
... thing that was not genuine . It is possible that some cases of mistake in this respect may have occurred . There may be one or two passages they can not well be more - printed in this volume which belong to other writers ; and if such ...
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... 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 nature she transforms To bear them light on her celestial ...
... 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 nature she transforms To bear them light on her celestial ...
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... things , genuine prophet and anticipator as he was of the Protestant Christian æra , —should have given in his Dialogue ... thing else they were exactly opposed to each other . ( 3 ) , Tragedy is poetry in its deepest earnest ; comedy is ...
... things , genuine prophet and anticipator as he was of the Protestant Christian æra , —should have given in his Dialogue ... thing else they were exactly opposed to each other . ( 3 ) , Tragedy is poetry in its deepest earnest ; comedy is ...
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... thing of heterogeneous parts , but a complete whole , founded on principles of its own . Throughout we find the drama of Menan- der distinguishing itself from tragedy , but not , as the genuine old VOL . IV . B ideal of comedy ...
... thing of heterogeneous parts , but a complete whole , founded on principles of its own . Throughout we find the drama of Menan- der distinguishing itself from tragedy , but not , as the genuine old VOL . IV . B ideal of comedy ...
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... thing as it really is . I have often ob- served that little children are actually deceived by stage - scenery ... things consists- not in the mind's judging it to be a forest , but , in its remission of the judgment that it is not a ...
... thing as it really is . I have often ob- served that little children are actually deceived by stage - scenery ... things consists- not in the mind's judging it to be a forest , but , in its remission of the judgment that it is not a ...
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Page 116 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page 167 - 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 157 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.
Page 135 - 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 37 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Page 123 - No matter where. Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
Page 18 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 168 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Page 349 - 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 163 - Good sir, why do you start ; and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? — I' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show?