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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... speech . His practice in this respect has been several times explained and , in some respects , vindicated by in- telligent disciples , who had perceived the subtle logic of his " ex- haustive and cyclical mode of discoursing . " The ...
... speech . His practice in this respect has been several times explained and , in some respects , vindicated by in- telligent disciples , who had perceived the subtle logic of his " ex- haustive and cyclical mode of discoursing . " The ...
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... speech of the character , -- but also in and through the dramatic . Songs in Shakspeare are introduced as songs only , just as songs are in real life , beautifully as some of them are characteristic of the person who has sung or called ...
... speech of the character , -- but also in and through the dramatic . Songs in Shakspeare are introduced as songs only , just as songs are in real life , beautifully as some of them are characteristic of the person who has sung or called ...
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... speeches , till the entrance of Ariel , contain the finest example , I remember , of retrospective narration for the ... speech of Miranda the simplicity and tenderness of her character are at once laid open ; —it would have been lost in ...
... speeches , till the entrance of Ariel , contain the finest example , I remember , of retrospective narration for the ... speech of Miranda the simplicity and tenderness of her character are at once laid open ; —it would have been lost in ...
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... speech at the end of the fourth act is an excellent speci- men of it . It is logic clothed in rhetoric ; -- but observe how Shakspeare , in his two - fold being of poet and philosopher , avails himself of it to convey profound truths in ...
... speech at the end of the fourth act is an excellent speci- men of it . It is logic clothed in rhetoric ; -- but observe how Shakspeare , in his two - fold being of poet and philosopher , avails himself of it to convey profound truths in ...
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... you , and that fault withal ; But , if they will not , throw away that spirit , And I shall find you empty of that fault , Right joyful of your reformation . Act v . sc . 2. In Biron's speech to NOTES ON LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST . 88.
... you , and that fault withal ; But , if they will not , throw away that spirit , And I shall find you empty of that fault , Right joyful of your reformation . Act v . sc . 2. In Biron's speech to NOTES ON LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST . 88.
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Page 169 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
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 114 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Page 139 - 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 164 - I do not think so ; since he went into France, I have been in continual practice ; I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart ; but it is no matter.
Page 171 - Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!
Page 106 - ... tawny front : his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper', And is become the bellows, and the fan, To cool a gipsy's lust.
Page 22 - ... 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 127 - 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? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 161 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.