The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological OpinionsHarper & brothers, 1853 |
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... feeling , — and which , while it blends and harmonizes the natural and the artificial , still subordinates art to nature , the manner to the matter , and our admiration of the poet to our sympathy with the images , passions , characters ...
... feeling , — and which , while it blends and harmonizes the natural and the artificial , still subordinates art to nature , the manner to the matter , and our admiration of the poet to our sympathy with the images , passions , characters ...
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... feeling , with all our faculties in even balance ) , that these few remarks will , I hope , be pardoned , if they should serve either to explain or to illustrate the point . For not only are we never absolutely deluded — or any thing ...
... feeling , with all our faculties in even balance ) , that these few remarks will , I hope , be pardoned , if they should serve either to explain or to illustrate the point . For not only are we never absolutely deluded — or any thing ...
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... feelings , conceived as in opposition to each other ; -in short , the perception of identity and contrariety ; the least de ... feeling and an object more awful than it seems to me compatible with even the present subject to utter aloud ...
... feelings , conceived as in opposition to each other ; -in short , the perception of identity and contrariety ; the least de ... feeling and an object more awful than it seems to me compatible with even the present subject to utter aloud ...
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... feelings , it is a very inferior kind of poetry , in which , as in the French tragedies , men are made to talk in a style which few indeed even of the wittiest can be supposed to converse in , and which both is , and on a moment's ...
... feelings , it is a very inferior kind of poetry , in which , as in the French tragedies , men are made to talk in a style which few indeed even of the wittiest can be supposed to converse in , and which both is , and on a moment's ...
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... feeling with thought , the starts and strange far - flights of the assimilative power on the slightest and least obvious likeness presented by thoughts , words , or objects , -these are all judged of by authority , not by actual ...
... feeling with thought , the starts and strange far - flights of the assimilative power on the slightest and least obvious likeness presented by thoughts , words , or objects , -these are all judged of by authority , not by actual ...
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Page 110 - Amen, amen ! but come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight : Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine.
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...
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Page 153 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.
Page 163 - 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 afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire?
Page 150 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 161 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
Page 305 - ... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Page 137 - O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman.
Page 153 - A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king, and marry with his brother.