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... writings , some from records of his conversation and notes taken at his lectures . But even so it is of lasting value and interest . What a great artist says about his own art is never negligible . Coleridge was a great literary artist ...
... writings , some from records of his conversation and notes taken at his lectures . But even so it is of lasting value and interest . What a great artist says about his own art is never negligible . Coleridge was a great literary artist ...
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... writings . These include some of Coleridge's best known and most brilliant sayings . In prose , as much as in poetry , he read largely , and seldom read with- out making some comment on the effect produced by the author whom he was ...
... writings . These include some of Coleridge's best known and most brilliant sayings . In prose , as much as in poetry , he read largely , and seldom read with- out making some comment on the effect produced by the author whom he was ...
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... writings . He found his own life an unfathomable well into which , as his eye grew trained to see in darkness , he could plunge deeper and deeper down among the springs of life . From those depths - and they were inexhaustible - he drew ...
... writings . He found his own life an unfathomable well into which , as his eye grew trained to see in darkness , he could plunge deeper and deeper down among the springs of life . From those depths - and they were inexhaustible - he drew ...
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... writings and from his reported speeches . Much help has also been obtained from Mr. Thomas Ashe's volume of the Lectures on Shakespeare , & c . , in the Bohn series . LITERARY CRITICISM POETRY THE poet , described in ideal perfection.
... writings and from his reported speeches . Much help has also been obtained from Mr. Thomas Ashe's volume of the Lectures on Shakespeare , & c . , in the Bohn series . LITERARY CRITICISM POETRY THE poet , described in ideal perfection.
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... writing throughout , because he could not in it have communicated his elaborate thinkings and lofty rhetoric ; but even Barrow not unfrequently lets slip a phrase here and there , in the regular Roger North way - much to the delight ...
... writing throughout , because he could not in it have communicated his elaborate thinkings and lofty rhetoric ; but even Barrow not unfrequently lets slip a phrase here and there , in the regular Roger North way - much to the delight ...
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Page 244 - Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page 236 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page viii - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
Page 88 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Page 177 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Page 171 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page 172 - With this he breaketh from the sweet embrace Of those fair arms which bound him to her breast, And homeward through the dark laund runs apace; Leaves Love upon her back, deeply distress'd. Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky, So glides he in the night from Venus...
Page 36 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Page 80 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Page 219 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.