Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

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Her skin was white as leprosy.

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A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

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I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

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Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

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That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

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Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

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Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

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O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

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Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

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Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.

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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

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But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

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Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

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Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.

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