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Page ix
... lecturer , memoranda of the investigator , outpourings of the solitary and self - communing student . The fear of the press was not in them . Numerous as they were too , they came to light , or were communicated , at different times ...
... lecturer , memoranda of the investigator , outpourings of the solitary and self - communing student . The fear of the press was not in them . Numerous as they were too , they came to light , or were communicated , at different times ...
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... Lectures given in the Spring of that Year Extract from a Letter to J. Britton , Esq . SHAKSPEARE , WITH INTRODUCTORY MATTER ON POETRY , THE DRAMA , AND THE STAGE . PAGE 17 18 19 Definition of Poetry . ..... Greek Drama . Progress of the ...
... Lectures given in the Spring of that Year Extract from a Letter to J. Britton , Esq . SHAKSPEARE , WITH INTRODUCTORY MATTER ON POETRY , THE DRAMA , AND THE STAGE . PAGE 17 18 19 Definition of Poetry . ..... Greek Drama . Progress of the ...
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... Lectures of Mr. Coleridge , delivered in May , 1808 . Prospectus of Lectures in 1811 .. PROSPECTUS OF LECTURES ..... 220 227 229 Lecture I. General Character of the Gothic Mind in the Middle Ages .. 232 II . General Character of the ...
... Lectures of Mr. Coleridge , delivered in May , 1808 . Prospectus of Lectures in 1811 .. PROSPECTUS OF LECTURES ..... 220 227 229 Lecture I. General Character of the Gothic Mind in the Middle Ages .. 232 II . General Character of the ...
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... for the Reader ; but contramonitory and in reply to Dick Proof , Corrector . 438 Maxilian . Flight I .. 445 Notes ... 457 Notes to Lecture xiii . on Poesy or Art .. 482 LITERARY REMAINS . Extract from a Letter written by Mr. xvi CONTENTS .
... for the Reader ; but contramonitory and in reply to Dick Proof , Corrector . 438 Maxilian . Flight I .. 445 Notes ... 457 Notes to Lecture xiii . on Poesy or Art .. 482 LITERARY REMAINS . Extract from a Letter written by Mr. xvi CONTENTS .
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... Lectures given in the spring of that year . See the Canterbury Mag- azine , September , 1834.-Ed. My next Friday's lecture will , if I do not grossly flatter - blind myself , be interesting , and the points of view not only original ...
... Lectures given in the spring of that year . See the Canterbury Mag- azine , September , 1834.-Ed. My next Friday's lecture will , if I do not grossly flatter - blind myself , be interesting , and the points of view not only original ...
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Page 120 - 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 363 - 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 newborn blisses, A six years
Page 173 - 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.