More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. Humour is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
  2. Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, - as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' …
  3. The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every...minutest fib…
  4. To see him act, is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
  5. The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.
  6. The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.
  7. Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. I…
  8. Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, o…

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