The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The fall of Robespierre. Poems. A course of lectures. OmnianaW. Pickering, 1836 - Literature |
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... becomes distinctly audible . O LEAVE the lily on its stem ; O leave the rose upon the spray ; O leave the elder - bloom , fair maids ! And listen to my lay . A cypress and a myrtle - bough This morn around my harp you twin'd , Because ...
... becomes distinctly audible . O LEAVE the lily on its stem ; O leave the rose upon the spray ; O leave the elder - bloom , fair maids ! And listen to my lay . A cypress and a myrtle - bough This morn around my harp you twin'd , Because ...
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... becomes , as it were , a part of the work contemplated . An endless com- plexity and variety are united into one whole , the plan of which is not distinct from the exe- cution . A Gothic cathedral is the petrefaction of our religion ...
... becomes , as it were , a part of the work contemplated . An endless com- plexity and variety are united into one whole , the plan of which is not distinct from the exe- cution . A Gothic cathedral is the petrefaction of our religion ...
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... becomes his turn to say the Lord's Prayer . At this time the Devil ( a constant attendant at that time ) makes his appearance , and getting behind Cain , whispers in his ear ; instead of the Lord's Prayer , Cain gives it so changed by ...
... becomes his turn to say the Lord's Prayer . At this time the Devil ( a constant attendant at that time ) makes his appearance , and getting behind Cain , whispers in his ear ; instead of the Lord's Prayer , Cain gives it so changed by ...
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... become permanent , although its magnifi- cence and stateliness were objects of admi- ration and occasional imitation . This style diminished the control of the writer over the inner feelings of men , and created too great a charm ...
... become permanent , although its magnifi- cence and stateliness were objects of admi- ration and occasional imitation . This style diminished the control of the writer over the inner feelings of men , and created too great a charm ...
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... become so predominant as to destroy the health of the Sospesa sta fra le stelle sublime , E lą gił son cittą , castella , e imperio ; Ma nol cognobbon quelle genti prime : Vedi che il sol di camminar s ' affretta , Dove io ti dico che ...
... become so predominant as to destroy the health of the Sospesa sta fra le stelle sublime , E lą gił son cittą , castella , e imperio ; Ma nol cognobbon quelle genti prime : Vedi che il sol di camminar s ' affretta , Dove io ti dico che ...
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Page 149 - My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest, Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies was not mixed equally; If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none do slacken, none can die.
Page 194 - ... 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 96 - Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place : Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.
Page 390 - People. Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Minister. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that, is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 112 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : Even so my sun one early morn did shine With...
Page 244 - I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God...
Page 246 - Another misery there is in affection ; that whom we truly love like our own selves, we forget their looks, nor can our memory retain the idea of their faces ; and it is no wonder, for they are ourselves, and our affection makes their looks our own.
Page 286 - He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after them with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors, or priests, Their choice nobility and flower, not only Of this, but each Philistian city round, Met from all parts to solemnize this feast.
Page 216 - It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into every thing which is the object of his contemplation; color, form, motion, and sound, are the elements which it combines, and it stamps them into unity in the mould of a moral idea.
Page 223 - He who combines the two is the man of genius; and for that reason he must partake of both. Hence there is in genius itself an unconscious activity; nay, that is the genius in the man of genius.