Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S.T. Coleridge, Volumen1William Pickering, 1849 |
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... play of those powers of mind , which are spontaneous rather than voluntary , and in which the effort required bears no proportion to the activity enjoyed . This is the state which permits the production of a highly pleasurable whole ...
... play of those powers of mind , which are spontaneous rather than voluntary , and in which the effort required bears no proportion to the activity enjoyed . This is the state which permits the production of a highly pleasurable whole ...
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... - ment ; and it is not to be supposed , that any dis- play of musical power was allowed to obscure the distinct hearing of the words . On the contrary , the evident purpose was to render the words more audible 20 GREEK DRAMA .
... - ment ; and it is not to be supposed , that any dis- play of musical power was allowed to obscure the distinct hearing of the words . On the contrary , the evident purpose was to render the words more audible 20 GREEK DRAMA .
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... play of the ancients , with refe- rence to their ideal , does not hold out more glaring absurdities than any in Shakspeare ? On the Greek plan a man could more easily be a poet than a dramatist ; upon our plan more easily a dramatist ...
... play of the ancients , with refe- rence to their ideal , does not hold out more glaring absurdities than any in Shakspeare ? On the Greek plan a man could more easily be a poet than a dramatist ; upon our plan more easily a dramatist ...
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... play and all the inter- est of our intellectual and moral being , till it leads us to a feeling and an object more awful than it seems to me compatible with even the present sub- ject to utter aloud , though I am most desirous to ...
... play and all the inter- est of our intellectual and moral being , till it leads us to a feeling and an object more awful than it seems to me compatible with even the present sub- ject to utter aloud , though I am most desirous to ...
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... play . Hence it is that so many dull pieces have had a decent run , only because nothing unusual above , or absurd be- low , mediocrity furnished an occasion , -- a spark for the explosive materials collected behind the or- chestra ...
... play . Hence it is that so many dull pieces have had a decent run , only because nothing unusual above , or absurd be- low , mediocrity furnished an occasion , -- a spark for the explosive materials collected behind the or- chestra ...
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Página 168 - 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...
Página 159 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Página 248 - 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...
Página 42 - 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?
Página 112 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamors of their own dear groans.
Página 234 - There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
Página 198 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Página 10 - ... 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...
Página 109 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Página 187 - Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death!