The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The fall of Robespierre. Poems. A course of lectures. OmnianaW. Pickering, 1836 - Literature |
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... tyrant's soul— Sudden in action , fertile in resource , And rising awful ' mid impending ruins ; In splendour gloomy , as the midnight meteor , That fearless thwarts the elemental war . * The origin and authorship of " The Fall of ...
... tyrant's soul— Sudden in action , fertile in resource , And rising awful ' mid impending ruins ; In splendour gloomy , as the midnight meteor , That fearless thwarts the elemental war . * The origin and authorship of " The Fall of ...
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... tyrant's greatness , Ever prepar'd to sting who shelters him . Each thought , each action in himself converges ; And love and friendship on his coward heart Shine like the powerless sun on polar ice : To all attach'd , by turns ...
... tyrant's greatness , Ever prepar'd to sting who shelters him . Each thought , each action in himself converges ; And love and friendship on his coward heart Shine like the powerless sun on polar ice : To all attach'd , by turns ...
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... tyrant living - we are dead ! TALLIEN . Yet his keen eye that flashes mighty meanings- LEGENDRE . Fear not or rather fear th ' alternative , And seek for courage e'en in cowardice— But see - hither he comes - let us away ! His brother ...
... tyrant living - we are dead ! TALLIEN . Yet his keen eye that flashes mighty meanings- LEGENDRE . Fear not or rather fear th ' alternative , And seek for courage e'en in cowardice— But see - hither he comes - let us away ! His brother ...
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... tyrant guardian of the country's freedom ! " COUTHON . ' Twere folly sure to work great deeds by halves ! Much I suspect the darksome fickle heart Of cold Barrere ! ROBESPIERRE . I see the villain in him ! ROBESPIERRE JUNIOR . If he ...
... tyrant guardian of the country's freedom ! " COUTHON . ' Twere folly sure to work great deeds by halves ! Much I suspect the darksome fickle heart Of cold Barrere ! ROBESPIERRE . I see the villain in him ! ROBESPIERRE JUNIOR . If he ...
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... tyrant ! Yet what is conscience ? superstition's dream Making such deep impression on our sleep- That long th ' awaken'd breast retains its horrors ! But he returns - and with him comes Barrere . [ Exit Couthon . Enter ROBESPIERRE and ...
... tyrant ! Yet what is conscience ? superstition's dream Making such deep impression on our sleep- That long th ' awaken'd breast retains its horrors ! But he returns - and with him comes Barrere . [ Exit Couthon . Enter ROBESPIERRE and ...
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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?
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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...
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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.