The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volumen 1W. Pickering, 1838 - 362 páginas No more published; the author collected material for a second volume, but destroyed it before his death. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 21
Página 279
... Geraldine , the life , the power of appearing and disappearing equally by day as by night , constitutes the peculiar merit of the Christabel and those poets who admire , and have reflected much on the supernatural , have ever considered ...
... Geraldine , the life , the power of appearing and disappearing equally by day as by night , constitutes the peculiar merit of the Christabel and those poets who admire , and have reflected much on the supernatural , have ever considered ...
Página 283
... Geraldine . This is one main object of the tale . At the opening of the poem all nature is laid under a spell- ' Tis the middle of night by the castle clock , And the owls have awak'ned the crowing cock ; Tu - whit ! -Tu - whoo ! And ...
... Geraldine . This is one main object of the tale . At the opening of the poem all nature is laid under a spell- ' Tis the middle of night by the castle clock , And the owls have awak'ned the crowing cock ; Tu - whit ! -Tu - whoo ! And ...
Página 286
... Geraldine : Five warriors seized me yestermorn , Me , even me , a maid forlorn : They chok'd my cries with force and fright , And tied me on a palfrey white . The palfrey was as fleet as wind , And they rode furiously behind . They ...
... Geraldine : Five warriors seized me yestermorn , Me , even me , a maid forlorn : They chok'd my cries with force and fright , And tied me on a palfrey white . The palfrey was as fleet as wind , And they rode furiously behind . They ...
Página 287
... Geraldine : O well , bright dame ! may you command The service of Sir Leoline ; And gladly our stout chivalry Will he send forth and friends withal , To guide and guard you safe and free Home to your noble father's hall . She rose and ...
... Geraldine : O well , bright dame ! may you command The service of Sir Leoline ; And gladly our stout chivalry Will he send forth and friends withal , To guide and guard you safe and free Home to your noble father's hall . She rose and ...
Página 288
... Geraldine had already worked upon the kind- ness of Christabel , so that she had lifted her over the threshold of the gate , which Geraldine's fallen power had prevented her passing of her- self , the place being holy and under the ...
... Geraldine had already worked upon the kind- ness of Christabel , so that she had lifted her over the threshold of the gate , which Geraldine's fallen power had prevented her passing of her- self , the place being holy and under the ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
afterwards appeared arrived beautiful believe Biographia Biographia Literaria Brocken called cause character Christ Christ's Hospital Christabel Christianity Cole Coleridge's College consequence conversation dear delighted doctrine dream duty early Elbingerode equally excited eyes faith father feelings genius gentleman Geraldine German habit heard heart heaven honourable hope hour human intellectual Jacobinism kind lady Lamb language lecture letter literary look Malta ment Middleton mind moral morning nature Nether Stowey never object observed opinions painful party person philosophical pleasure poems poet poetic poetry political present principles published racter Ratzeburg readers reason religion ridge Roland de Vaux S. T. COLeridge SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE says seemed sense shew Sir Alexander Ball Sir Leoline Socinians Spinoza spirit Stowey suffering sweet talent thing thou thought tion Trinity truth Unitarian verses whole words Wordsworth write written youth
Pasajes populares
Página 118 - But now afflictions bow me down to earth: Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth; But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.
Página 299 - A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head ; Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye...
Página 117 - There was a time when, though my path was rough, This joy within me dallied with distress, And all misfortunes were but as the stuff Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness: For hope grew round me, like the twining vine, And fruits and foliage, not my own, seemed mine.
Página 291 - And thus the lofty lady spake 'All they who live in the upper sky, Do love you, holy Christabel! And you love them, and for their sake And for the good which me befel, Even I in my degree will try, Fair maiden, to requite you well. But now unrobe yourself; for I Must pray, ere yet in bed I lie.
Página 104 - Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic — yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Página 72 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Página 292 - And with low voice and doleful look These words did say: "In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell, Which is lord of thy utterance, Christabel...
Página 284 - Is the night chilly and dark? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin grey cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill...
Página 284 - Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel, Whom her father loves so well, What makes her in the wood so late, A furlong from the castle gate? She had dreams all yesternight Of her own betrothed knight; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away.
Página 14 - My parents, and those who should care for me, were far away. Those few acquaintances of theirs, which they could reckon upon being kind to me in the great city, after a little forced notice, which they had the grace to take of me on my first arrival in town, soon grew tired of my holiday visits.