The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological OpinionsHarper & brothers, 1853 |
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... interest and permanence to the class should be individualized . The old tra- gedy moved in an ideal world , —the old comedy in a fantastic world . As the entertainment , or new comedy , restrained the creative activity both of the fancy ...
... interest and permanence to the class should be individualized . The old tra- gedy moved in an ideal world , —the old comedy in a fantastic world . As the entertainment , or new comedy , restrained the creative activity both of the fancy ...
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... interest compelled them not to leave the people wholly ig- norant of the great events of sacred history . They did that , therefore , by scenic representations , which in after - ages it has been attempted to do in Roman Catholic ...
... interest compelled them not to leave the people wholly ig- norant of the great events of sacred history . They did that , therefore , by scenic representations , which in after - ages it has been attempted to do in Roman Catholic ...
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... interest of our intellectual and moral being , till it leads us to a feeling and an object more awful than it seems to me compatible with even the present subject to utter aloud ; though I am most desirous to suggest it . For there ...
... interest of our intellectual and moral being , till it leads us to a feeling and an object more awful than it seems to me compatible with even the present subject to utter aloud ; though I am most desirous to suggest it . For there ...
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... interest on the plot . The interest in the plot is always in fact on account of the characters , not vice versa , as in almost all other writers ; the plot is a mere canvass and no more . Hence arises the true justification of the same ...
... interest on the plot . The interest in the plot is always in fact on account of the characters , not vice versa , as in almost all other writers ; the plot is a mere canvass and no more . Hence arises the true justification of the same ...
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... interest on the story as the ground- work of the plot . Hence Shakspeare never took the trouble of inventing stories . It was enough for him to select from those that had been already invented or recorded such as had one or other , or ...
... interest on the story as the ground- work of the plot . Hence Shakspeare never took the trouble of inventing stories . It was enough for him to select from those that had been already invented or recorded such as had one or other , or ...
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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...
Page 103 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
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.