Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge, Volume 1W. Pickering, 1849 - English drama |
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... speech . His practice in this respect has been several times explained and , in some respects , vindicated by intelligent disciples , who had perceived the subtle logic of his " ex- haustive and cyclical mode of discoursing . " The ...
... speech . His practice in this respect has been several times explained and , in some respects , vindicated by intelligent disciples , who had perceived the subtle logic of his " ex- haustive and cyclical mode of discoursing . " The ...
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... speech of Miranda the simplicity and tenderness of her character are at once laid open ; -it would have been lost in direct contact with the agitation of the first scene . The opinion once prevailed , but , happily , is now abandoned ...
... speech of Miranda the simplicity and tenderness of her character are at once laid open ; -it would have been lost in direct contact with the agitation of the first scene . The opinion once prevailed , but , happily , is now abandoned ...
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... speech at the end of the fourth act is an excellent specimen of it . It is logic clothed in rhetoric ; -but observe how Shakspeare , in his two - fold being of poet and philosopher , avails himself of it to convey pro- found truths in ...
... speech at the end of the fourth act is an excellent specimen of it . It is logic clothed in rhetoric ; -but observe how Shakspeare , in his two - fold being of poet and philosopher , avails himself of it to convey pro- found truths in ...
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... . Act v . sc . 2. In Biron's speech to the Princess : - - and , therefore , like the eye , Full of straying shapes , of habits , and of forms- Either read stray , which I prefer ; or throw 112 NOTES ON LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST .
... . Act v . sc . 2. In Biron's speech to the Princess : - - and , therefore , like the eye , Full of straying shapes , of habits , and of forms- Either read stray , which I prefer ; or throw 112 NOTES ON LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST .
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... speech of Rosaline's ; it soils the very page that retains it . But I do not agree with Warburton and others in striking out the preceding line also . It is quite in Biron's character ; and Rosaline not answering it immediately , Dumain ...
... speech of Rosaline's ; it soils the very page that retains it . But I do not agree with Warburton and others in striking out the preceding line also . It is quite in Biron's character ; and Rosaline not answering it immediately , Dumain ...
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