Poetry, edited by Ernest Hartley ColeridgeJ. Murray, 1924 |
Common terms and phrases
Abel Adah Age of Bronze Aholibamah Anah angels ARNOLD aught bear beautiful behold better blood Book of Enoch born Bourb Bourbon brother Byron Cæs Cæsar Cain Canto Charles de Bourbon Chief dare death deem Doge dost earth Enter erased eternal Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel Foscari hand Harriet Lee hath hear heart Heaven hour Iden IDENSTEIN Japh King leave live look Lord Lord Byron Loredano Lucifer mortal Myrrha Napoleon ne'er never night noble o'er palace PANIA Poetical Prince Rome Salemenes Sardanapalus Satraps Sieg Siegendorf sire slave Soldiers soul speak spirit Stral Stralenheim Stran sword thee thine things thou art thou hast thought twas Ulric unto vide walls Werner wilt word wouldst
Popular passages
Page 556 - A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations — all were his!
Page 339 - It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakespeare are less calculated for performance on a stage, than those of almost any other dramatist whatever.
Page 277 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 556 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks — They have a king who buys and sells; In native swords and native ranks The only hope of courage dwells: But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad.
Page 255 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 537 - Neither time, nor distance, nor grief, nor age, can ever diminish my veneration for him, who is the great moral poet of all times, of all climes, of all feelings, and of all stages of existence.
Page 613 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Page 613 - But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Page 208 - ... brought against the articles of the church, nor ever admitted their authority as decisive of a difficulty; but I used on such occasions to say to them, holding the New Testament in my hand, En sacrum codicem!
Page 592 - No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.