The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One VolumeThomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1840 - 546 pages |
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... action goading human thought Have made Earth's reasoning animal her Lord ; And the pale - featured Sage's trembling hand Strong as an host of armed Deities , Such as the blind Ionian fabled erst . From Avarice thus , from Luxury and War ...
... action goading human thought Have made Earth's reasoning animal her Lord ; And the pale - featured Sage's trembling hand Strong as an host of armed Deities , Such as the blind Ionian fabled erst . From Avarice thus , from Luxury and War ...
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... Action and Joy - An orphic song indeed , A song divine of high and passionate thoughts , To their own music chanted ! O great Bard ' Ere yet that last strain dying awed the air , With stedfast eye I view'd thee in the choir Of ever ...
... Action and Joy - An orphic song indeed , A song divine of high and passionate thoughts , To their own music chanted ! O great Bard ' Ere yet that last strain dying awed the air , With stedfast eye I view'd thee in the choir Of ever ...
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... action , as well as invented the characters of the parties and the detail of the incidents . ) Edward , how- ever , though perplexed by her strange detraction from her daughter's good qualities , yet in the innocence of his own heart ...
... action , as well as invented the characters of the parties and the detail of the incidents . ) Edward , how- ever , though perplexed by her strange detraction from her daughter's good qualities , yet in the innocence of his own heart ...
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... action Beneath the cloak of patient sufferance . Act and appear as time and prudence prompt thee ; I shall not misconceive the part thou playest . Mine is an easier part - to brave the Usurper . [ Enter a procession of EMERICK's ...
... action Beneath the cloak of patient sufferance . Act and appear as time and prudence prompt thee ; I shall not misconceive the part thou playest . Mine is an easier part - to brave the Usurper . [ Enter a procession of EMERICK's ...
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... action To the whole corps , if once in their remembrance An old deserving soldier makes his way . BUTLER . I dare accept this your congratulation . I am perplex'd and doubtful , whether or no The Emperor has not yet confirm'd the ...
... action To the whole corps , if once in their remembrance An old deserving soldier makes his way . BUTLER . I dare accept this your congratulation . I am perplex'd and doubtful , whether or no The Emperor has not yet confirm'd the ...
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ALHADRA ALVAR arms beneath BETHLEN BILLAUD VARENNES blessed BUTLER CASIMIR cause character child common COUNTESS dare dark dear doth dream DUCHESS Duke earth Egra EMERICK Emperor ESSAY evil faith fancy father fear feelings genius GLYCINE GORDON hand hast hath hear heard heart Heaven honor hope human ILLO Illyria ISIDORE ISOLANI Jacobins lady language LASKA less light live look Lord Lyrical Ballads means metre mind moral mother nation nature never o'er object OCTAVIO OLD BATHORY once ORDONIO Pamphilus passion philosophical Piccolomini poem poet poetry present principles QUESTENBERG RAAB KIUPRILI RAGOZZI Ratzeburg reader reason Robespierre round SAROLTA SCENE seem'd sense soul speak spirit sweet TALLIEN TERESA TERTSKY thee THEKLA thine things thou thought tion Treaty of Amiens true truth VALDEZ voice WALLENSTEIN whole wild words WRANGEL ZAPOLYA
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Page 72 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Page 70 - And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 331 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 75 - I never saw aught like to them, Unless perchance it were "Brown skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf's young.
Page 76 - O sweeter than the marriage-feast, Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company! — To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Page 65 - Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air...
Page 46 - O struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars, Or when they climb the sky or when they sink...
Page 74 - Twas night, calm night, the Moon was high; The dead men stood together. All stood together on the deck, For a charnel-dungeon fitter: All fix'd on me their stony eyes, That in the Moon did glitter.
Page 75 - This seraph-band, each waved his hand: It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light; This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart.
Page 72 - See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more! Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel!