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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DRAMA GENERALLY, AND PUBLIC TASTE. Unaccustomed to address such an audience, and having lost by a long interval of confinement the advantages of my former short schooling, I had miscalculated in my last Lecture the proportion of my matter to my time, and by bad economy and unskilful management, the several heads of my discourse failed in making the entire performance correspond with the promise publicly circulated in the weekly annunciation of the subjects, to be treated. It would indeed have been wiser in me, and perhaps better on the whole, if I had caused my Lectures to be announced only as continuations of the main subject. But if I be, as perforce I must be, gratified by the recollection of whatever has appeared to give you pleasure, I am conscious of something better, though less flattering, a sense of unfeigned gratitude for your forbearance with my defects. Like affectionate guardians, you see without disgust the awkwardness, and witness with sympathy the growing pains, of a youthful endeavor, and look forward with a hope, which is its own reward, to the contingent results of practice-to its intellectual maturity. . In my last address I defined poetry to be the art, or whatever better term our language may afford, of representing external nature and human thoughts, both relatively to human affections, so as to cause the production of as great immediate pleasure in V' each part as is compatible with the largest possible sum of pleas, ure on the whole. Now this definition applies equally to paint- ing and music as. to £petry; and in truth the term poetry is alike applicable to all thjgg The vehicle ajonecpnstitutes the differ- ence; an3 'jtheterm.'.ppfttry.'. is rightly applied by eminence to measnred. woxds, Qil],y,iiefiause the sghere of their. Books History~~United States~~General complete-works-of-Samuel-Taylor-Coleridge-With-an-introductory-essay-upon-his-philosophical-and-theological-opinions~~Samuel-Taylor-Coleridge General Books LLC This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 4; Original Published by: Harper & brothers in 1853 in 519 pages; Subjects: History / United States / General; History / United States / State & Local / General; Literary Collections / General; Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;<

ISBN: 9780217345545

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...by quality of sound, and that by quantity--the hammer, and the spatula--the latter over 2, 3, 4 syllables or even a whole line. It is in this that the actors and speakers are generally speaking defective, they can not equilibrate an emphasis, or spread it over a number of syllables, all emphasized, sometimes equally, sometimes unequally. give it only the one over-running syllable, which is so common in the last foot. LECTURE VIII. DON QUIXOTE. CERVANTES. Born at Madrid, 1547;--Shakspeare, 1564; both put off mortality on the same day, the 23d of April, 1616,--the one in the sixty-ninth, the other in the fifty-second, year jof his life. The resemblance in their physiognomies is striking, but with a predominance of acuteness in Cervantes, and of reflection in Shakspeare, which is the specific difference between the Spanish and English characters of inind. I. The nature and eminence of Symbolical writing;--II. Madness, and its different sorts (considered without pretension to medical science);--To each of these, or at least to my own notions respecting them, I must devote a few words of explanation, in order to render the after-critique on Don GLuixote, the master-work of Cervantes'' and his country''s genius, easily and throughout intelligible. This is not the least valuable, though it may most often be felt by us both as the heaviest and least entertaining portion of these critical disquisitions: for without it, I must have foregone one at least of the two appropriate objects of a Lecture, that of interesting you during its delivery, and of leaving behind in your minds the germs of after-thought, and the materials for future enjoyment. To have been assured by several of my intelligent auditors that they have reperused Hamlet or Othello with increased... Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Books, History, The Complete Works Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; With An Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical And Theological Opinions Volume 4 Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 4; Original Published by: Harper & brothers in 1853 in 519 pages; Subjects: History / United States / General; History / United States / State & Local / General; Literary Collections / General; Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;<

ISBN: 9780217345545

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...by quality of sound, and that by quantity--the hammer, and the spatula--the latter over 2, 3, 4 syllables or even a whole line. It is in this that the actors and speakers are generally speaking defective, they can not equilibrate an emphasis, or spread it over a number of syllables, all emphasized, sometimes equally, sometimes unequally. give it only the one over-running syllable, which is so common in the last foot. LECTURE VIII. DON QUIXOTE. CERVANTES. Born at Madrid, 1547;--Shakspeare, 1564; both put off mortality on the same day, the 23d of April, 1616,--the one in the sixty-ninth, the other in the fifty-second, year jof his life. The resemblance in their physiognomies is striking, but with a predominance of acuteness in Cervantes, and of reflection in Shakspeare, which is the specific difference between the Spanish and English characters of inind. I. The nature and eminence of Symbolical writing;--II. Madness, and its different sorts (considered without pretension to medical science);--To each of these, or at least to my own notions respecting them, I must devote a few words of explanation, in order to render the after-critique on Don GLuixote, the master-work of Cervantes'' and his country''s genius, easily and throughout intelligible. This is not the least valuable, though it may most often be felt by us both as the heaviest and least entertaining portion of these critical disquisitions: for without it, I must have foregone one at least of the two appropriate objects of a Lecture, that of interesting you during its delivery, and of leaving behind in your minds the germs of after-thought, and the materials for future enjoyment. To have been assured by several of my intelligent auditors that they have reperused Hamlet or Othello with increased... Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Books, History, The Complete Works Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; With An Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical And Theological Opinions Volume 4 Books>History, General Books LLC<