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... living whole . ( 8 ) The Greek tragedy may rather be compared to our serious opera than to the tragedies of Shakspeare ; nevertheless , the difference is far greater than the likeness . In the opera all is subordinated to the music ...
... living whole . ( 8 ) The Greek tragedy may rather be compared to our serious opera than to the tragedies of Shakspeare ; nevertheless , the difference is far greater than the likeness . In the opera all is subordinated to the music ...
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... living characters introduced under their own names ; and no doubt , their ordinary dress , manner , person and voice were closely mimicked . In less favorable states of society , as that of England in the middle ages , the beginnings of ...
... living characters introduced under their own names ; and no doubt , their ordinary dress , manner , person and voice were closely mimicked . In less favorable states of society , as that of England in the middle ages , the beginnings of ...
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... living comment and interpretation , it must remain forever a sealed volume , a deep well without a wheel or a windlass ; it seems to me a pardonable enthusiasm to steal away from sober likelihood , and share in so rich a feast in the ...
... living comment and interpretation , it must remain forever a sealed volume , a deep well without a wheel or a windlass ; it seems to me a pardonable enthusiasm to steal away from sober likelihood , and share in so rich a feast in the ...
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... living powers , must of necessity circum- scribe itself by rules , were it only to unite power with beauty . It must embody in order to reveal itself ; but a living body is of necessity an organized one ; and what is organization but ...
... living powers , must of necessity circum- scribe itself by rules , were it only to unite power with beauty . It must embody in order to reveal itself ; but a living body is of necessity an organized one ; and what is organization but ...
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... living poet must surely write , not for the ages past , but for that in which he lives , and those which are to follow , it is , on the one hand , natural that he should not violate , and on the other , necessary that he should not ...
... living poet must surely write , not for the ages past , but for that in which he lives , and those which are to follow , it is , on the one hand , natural that he should not violate , and on the other , necessary that he should not ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
admirable appear Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson cause character Coleridge comedy common divine Don Quixote drama effect especially excellent excite express exquisite fancy feeling genius give Greek Hamlet hath Hence human humor Iago idea images imagination imitation individual instance intellect interest Jonson judgment Julius Cæsar king language latter Lear Lecture Love's Labor's Lost Macbeth means metre Milton mind moral nature never object observe original Othello pantheism Paradise Lost passage passion perhaps persons philosophic Plato play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Polonius present principle produced reader reason religion Richard III Roman Romeo Romeo and Juliet S. T. COLERIDGE scene Schlegel sense Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's Shaksperian soul speech spirit style supposed taste thing thou thought tion tragedy true truth understanding unity verse Warburton whilst whole words writers
Passagens conhecidas
Página 120 - 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...
Página 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.
Página 139 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,— often the surfeit of our own behavior,— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Página 127 - Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Página 164 - I do not think so ; since he went into France, I have been in continual practice ; I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart ; but it is no matter.
Página 22 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Página 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...
Página 363 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his newborn blisses, A six years
Página 173 - It will have blood ; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move and trees to speak ; Augurs and understood relations have By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood.