The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The fall of Robespierre. Poems. A course of lectures. OmnianaW. Pickering, 1836 - Literature |
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... never saw from the time it was written till the whole was before the world . It was written with newspapers before me , as fast as newspaper could be put into blank verse . I have no desire to claim it now , or hereafter ; but neither ...
... never saw from the time it was written till the whole was before the world . It was written with newspapers before me , as fast as newspaper could be put into blank verse . I have no desire to claim it now , or hereafter ; but neither ...
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... never weather out the storm- Yet he is sudden in revenge - No more ! I must away to Tallien . SCENE changes to the House of Adelaide . ADELAIDE enters , speaking to a Servant . ADELAIDE . Didst thou present the letter that I gave thee ...
... never weather out the storm- Yet he is sudden in revenge - No more ! I must away to Tallien . SCENE changes to the House of Adelaide . ADELAIDE enters , speaking to a Servant . ADELAIDE . Didst thou present the letter that I gave thee ...
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... tyrant . COLLOT D'HERBOIS . Ring the tocsin - call all the citizens To save their country - never yet has Paris Forsook the representatives of France . TALLIEN . It is the hour of danger . I 24 THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE .
... tyrant . COLLOT D'HERBOIS . Ring the tocsin - call all the citizens To save their country - never yet has Paris Forsook the representatives of France . TALLIEN . It is the hour of danger . I 24 THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE .
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... never let us deem That France shall crouch beneath a tyrant's throne , That the almighty people who have broke On their oppressors ' heads the oppressive chain , Will court again their fetters ! easier were it To hurl the cloud - capt ...
... never let us deem That France shall crouch beneath a tyrant's throne , That the almighty people who have broke On their oppressors ' heads the oppressive chain , Will court again their fetters ! easier were it To hurl the cloud - capt ...
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... never , never Shall this regenerated country wear The despot yoke . Though myriads round assail , And with worse fury urge this new crusade Than savages have known ; though the leagued despots Depopulate all Europe , so to pour The ...
... never , never Shall this regenerated country wear The despot yoke . Though myriads round assail , And with worse fury urge this new crusade Than savages have known ; though the leagued despots Depopulate all Europe , so to pour The ...
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ADELAIDE BARRERE Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson BILLAUD VARENNES blood BOURDON L'OISE Cæsar cause character Christ Christian Coleridge COLLOT D'HERBOIS common Couthon Dante dark dear Rain death divine Don Quixote Edited English excellent faith fancy fear feeling foolscap 8vo foul France freedom genius Greek hand hear heart heaven Henriot human humour images imagination imitation Jeremy Taylor Jesus College language latter LECTURE LEGENDRE living Lord Loud Applauses Memoir ment Milton mind moral mourn nature never o'er object original Paradise Lost passion patriot person pleasure POEMS poet poetry racters reason reign religion representatives of France Robespierre ROBESPIERRE JUNIOR romance S. T. COLERIDGE SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE sense Shakspeare soul spirit sweet tale TALLIEN thee thing thou thought tion traitor translated trembling true truth tyrant verse virtue vols whole words writers
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