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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... truth is , that they were sometimes found so indissolubly intertwined with the more popular matter which preceded and followed , as to make separation impracticable . There are very many to whom no apology will be necessary in this ...
... truth is , that they were sometimes found so indissolubly intertwined with the more popular matter which preceded and followed , as to make separation impracticable . There are very many to whom no apology will be necessary in this ...
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... truth ; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure . This definition is useful ; but as it would include novels and other works of fic- - tion , which yet we do not call poems DEFINITION OF ...
... truth ; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure . This definition is useful ; but as it would include novels and other works of fic- - tion , which yet we do not call poems DEFINITION OF ...
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... truths of nature and of the human heart , united with a constant activity modifying and correcting these truths by that sort of pleasurable emotion , which the exertion of all our faculties gives in a certain degree ; but which can only ...
... truths of nature and of the human heart , united with a constant activity modifying and correcting these truths by that sort of pleasurable emotion , which the exertion of all our faculties gives in a certain degree ; but which can only ...
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... truth of character , -- not so far indeed as that a bona fide individual should be described or imagined , but yet so that the features which give interest and permanence to the class should be individualized . The old tra- gedy moved ...
... truth of character , -- not so far indeed as that a bona fide individual should be described or imagined , but yet so that the features which give interest and permanence to the class should be individualized . The old tra- gedy moved ...
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... truth they were ) the ideal representatives of the real audience , and of the poet him- self in his own character , assuming the supposed impressions made by the drama , in order to direct and rule them . But when the chorus itself ...
... truth they were ) the ideal representatives of the real audience , and of the poet him- self in his own character , assuming the supposed impressions made by the drama , in order to direct and rule them . But when the chorus itself ...
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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?