Essays on his own times, forming a 2nd series of The Friend, ed. by his daughter [S. Coleridge]. |
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Página 983 - I'll tell, that if they be not glad, They yet may envy me ; But then if I grow jealous mad, And of them pitied be, It were a plague 'bove scorn : And yet it cannot be...
Página 834 - WHO shall awake the Spartan fife, And call in solemn sounds to life, The youths, whose locks divinely spreading, Like vernal hyacinths in sullen hue, At once the breath of fear and virtue shedding, Applauding freedom loved of old to view?
Página 833 - The youths, whose locks divinely spreading, Like vernal hyacinths in sullen hue, At once the breath of fear and virtue shedding, Applauding Freedom lov'd of old to view ? What new Alcaeus, fancy-blest, Shall sing the sword, in myrtles drest...
Página 958 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Página 958 - And how then was the Devil drest? Oh ! he was in his Sunday's best : His jacket was red and his breeches were blue And there was a hole where the tail came through.
Página 878 - So spake the grisly terror ; and in shape, So speaking, and so threatening, grew ten-fold More dreadful and deform : on the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Página 964 - WHAT is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Página 753 - Undying recollections; Nature there Was with thee; she, who loved us both, she still Was with thee; and even so didst thou become A silent Poet; from the solitude Of the vast sea didst bring a watchful heart Still couchant, an inevitable ear, And an eye practised like a blind man's touch.
Página 708 - In every state, not wholly barbarous, a philosophy good or bad, there must be. However slightingly it may be the fashion to talk of speculation and theory, as opposed (sillily and nonsensically opposed) to practice, it would not be difficult to prove, that such as is the existing spirit of speculation, during any given period, such will be the spirit and tone of the religion, legislation, and morals, nay, even of the fine arts, the manners, and the fashions. Nor is this the less true, because the...
Página 989 - Toward the close of the first year from the time that, in an inauspicious hour, I left the friendly cloisters and the happy grove of quiet, ever honored Jesus College, Cambridge, I was persuaded by sundry philanthropists and antipolemists to set on foot a periodical work, entitled The Watchman...