The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 4Harper & Brothers, 1854 |
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... nature , and the passions and ac- cidents of human nature , are often expressed in that natural language which the contemplation of them would suggest to a pure and benevolent mind ; yet still neither we nor the writers call such a work ...
... nature , and the passions and ac- cidents of human nature , are often expressed in that natural language which the contemplation of them would suggest to a pure and benevolent mind ; yet still neither we nor the writers call such a work ...
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... 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 , and incidents of the poem : — Doubtless , this could not ...
... 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 , and incidents of the poem : — Doubtless , this could not ...
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... nature a more decided preponderance over the animal cravings and impulses , than is met with in real life : the comic poet idealizes his characters by making the animal the governing power , and the intellectual the mere instrument ...
... nature a more decided preponderance over the animal cravings and impulses , than is met with in real life : the comic poet idealizes his characters by making the animal the governing power , and the intellectual the mere instrument ...
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... nature , accompanied with a defect in true freedom of spirit and self - subsistence , and subject to that uncon- nection by contradictions of the inward being , to which all folly is owing . The ideal of earnest poetry consists in the ...
... nature , accompanied with a defect in true freedom of spirit and self - subsistence , and subject to that uncon- nection by contradictions of the inward being , to which all folly is owing . The ideal of earnest poetry consists in the ...
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... nature and human thoughts , both relatively to human affections , so as to cause the production of as great immediate pleasure in each part as is compatible with the largest possible sum of pleas- ure on the whole . Now this definition ...
... nature and human thoughts , both relatively to human affections , so as to cause the production of as great immediate pleasure in each part as is compatible with the largest possible sum of pleas- ure on the whole . Now this definition ...
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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 161 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.
Page 83 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it ; never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 168 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
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 158 - 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.
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 22 - ... 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 poetry.
Page 180 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions; but we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion.
Page 293 - Or se' tu quel Virgilio, e quella fonte, Che spande di parlar si largo fiume? Risposi lui con vergognosa fronte. O degli altri poeti onore e lume, Vagliami il lungo studio e il grande amore, Che m' ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume. Tu se...