The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The fall of Robespierre. Poems. A course of lectures. OmnianaW. Pickering, 1836 - Literature |
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Page 89
... Observe Chaucer's love of nature ; and how happily the subject of his main work is chosen . When you reflect that the company in the Decameron have retired to a place of safety from the raging of a pestilence , their mirth provokes a ...
... Observe Chaucer's love of nature ; and how happily the subject of his main work is chosen . When you reflect that the company in the Decameron have retired to a place of safety from the raging of a pestilence , their mirth provokes a ...
Page 93
... Observe also the exceeding vividness of Spenser's descriptions . They are not , in the true sense of the word , picturesque ; but are composed of a wondrous series of images , as in our dreams . Compare the following passage with any ...
... Observe also the exceeding vividness of Spenser's descriptions . They are not , in the true sense of the word , picturesque ; but are composed of a wondrous series of images , as in our dreams . Compare the following passage with any ...
Page 99
... observing man ; but he cared only to observe what was external or open to , and likely to impress , the senses . He individual- izes , not so much , if at all , by the exhibition of moral or intellectual differences , as by the ...
... observing man ; but he cared only to observe what was external or open to , and likely to impress , the senses . He individual- izes , not so much , if at all , by the exhibition of moral or intellectual differences , as by the ...
Page 100
... classic or obscure modern writers , by those who are learned and curious enough to follow the steps of this robust , surly , and observing dramatist . BEAUMONT . FLETCHER . Born , 1586. - Died , 100 COURSE OF LECTURES .
... classic or obscure modern writers , by those who are learned and curious enough to follow the steps of this robust , surly , and observing dramatist . BEAUMONT . FLETCHER . Born , 1586. - Died , 100 COURSE OF LECTURES .
Page 104
... observation , or from the occasional similarity of the writer's own character , more or less in Beaumont and Fletcher , and other such writers will happen to be in correspondence with nature , and still more in apparent compatibility ...
... observation , or from the occasional similarity of the writer's own character , more or less in Beaumont and Fletcher , and other such writers will happen to be in correspondence with nature , and still more in apparent compatibility ...
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