The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The fall of Robespierre. Poems. A course of lectures. OmnianaW. Pickering, 1836 - Literature |
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... actions have cast a disastrous lustre on his name . In the execution of the work , as intricacy of plot could not have been attempted without a gross violation of recent facts , it has been my sole aim to imitate the impassioned and ...
... actions have cast a disastrous lustre on his name . In the execution of the work , as intricacy of plot could not have been attempted without a gross violation of recent facts , it has been my sole aim to imitate the impassioned and ...
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... 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 Robespierre " will be best ...
... 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 Robespierre " will be best ...
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... 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 deserting all , Cunning and dark - a necessary villain ! TALLIEN . Yet much depends upon ...
... 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 deserting all , Cunning and dark - a necessary villain ! TALLIEN . Yet much depends upon ...
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... liberty of speech- And Robespierre is a tyrant ! Tallien reigns , He dreads to hear the voice of innocence- And St. Just must be silent ! LEGENDRE . Heed we well That justice guide our actions 20 THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE .
... liberty of speech- And Robespierre is a tyrant ! Tallien reigns , He dreads to hear the voice of innocence- And St. Just must be silent ! LEGENDRE . Heed we well That justice guide our actions 20 THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE .
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... actions . No light import Attends this day . I move St. Just be heard . FRERON . Inviolate be the sacred right of man , The freedom of debate . ST . JUST . [ Violent Applauses . dare pronounce I may be heard then ! much the times are ...
... actions . No light import Attends this day . I move St. Just be heard . FRERON . Inviolate be the sacred right of man , The freedom of debate . ST . JUST . [ Violent Applauses . dare pronounce I may be heard then ! much the times are ...
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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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