 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 372 oldal
...Copy. THE collocation of words is so artificial in Shakspeare and Milton, that you may as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with your forefinger, as attempt to remove a word out of any of their finished passages.* A good lecture upon style might be composed, by taking on the one hand the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 410 oldal
...Copy. THE collocation of words is so artificial in Shakspeare and Milton, that you may as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with your forefinger, as attempt to remove a word out of any of their finished passages.* A good lecture upon style might be composed, by taking on the one hand the... | |
 | 1834 - 602 oldal
...been caught by any later poet. It is Mr. Coleridge's own strong remark, that you might as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with your forefinger, as attempt to remove a word out of the finished passages in Shakspeare or Milton. The amotion or transposition will alter the thought,... | |
 | 1839 - 592 oldal
...that " the collocation of words is so artificial in Shakespeare and Milton, that you may as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with your fore-finger as attempt to remove a word out of any of their finished passages." These observations, and especially the last, are peculiarity applicable to... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 528 oldal
...COPY. THE collocation of words is so artificial in Shakspeare and Milton, that you may as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with your forefinger, as attempt to remove a word out of any of their finished passages.^ A good lecture upon style might be composed, by taking on the one hand the... | |
 | 1854 - 378 oldal
...— The collocation of words is so artificial in Shakespeare and Milton, that you may as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with your forefinger, as attempt to remove a word out of any of their finished passages. — Coleridge. THE Woonsocket Patriot editor makes merry over the mistake... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 540 oldal
...of words is so artificial in Shakspearc and Milton, that you may as well think of pushing a lin'tk out of a wall with your forefinger, as attempt to* remove a word out of any of their finished passages.* A good lecture upon style might be composed, by taking on the one hand the... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 oldal
...walk, and wot not what they are." How true is it what Coleridge said, " that you might as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with your forefinger,...remove a word out of any of the finished passages of Shakspeare."* To show the wonderful power of expression that belongs to poetry, under even the most... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 oldal
...walk, and wot not what they are." How true is it what Coleridge said, " that you might as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with your forefinger,...remove a word out of any of the finished passages of Shakspeare."* To show the wonderful power of expression that belongs to poetry, under even the most... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 oldal
...walk, a'/d wot not what they are." How true is it what Coleridge said, " that you might as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with your forefinger,...remove a word out of any of the finished passages of Shakspeare." To show the wonderful power of expression that belongs to poetry, under even the most... | |
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Shakspeare and Milton, that you may as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with your forefinger, as attempt to remove a word out of any of their finished passages... 
