 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1877 - 416 ページ
...the poorer of the two. I have only to add that the metre of the Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion. [1816.] PART I. "PIS the middle of night by the castle clock, And the owls have awaken'd the crowing... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 ページ
...four. Nevertheless this occasional variation in number of syllables is not introduced wantonly, nr for the mere ends of convenience, but in correspondence...transition, in the nature of the imagery or passion. PART I. Tis the middle of night. by the castle clock, And the owls have awakened the crowing cock ;... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 ページ
...Christabel, and like Goethe's Erl King, has several variations introduced (as Coleridge says of his own) 'in correspondence with some transition in the nature of the imagery or passion.' The ' new principle,' in short, was Chatterton's. Again, in the mysterious suggestiveness of remote... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 ページ
...Christabcl, and like Goethe's Erl King, has several variations introduced (as Coleridge says of his own) 'in correspondence with some transition in the nature of the imagery or passion.' The ' new principle,' in short, was Chatterton's. Again, in the mysterious suggestiveness of remote... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1881 - 592 ページ
...only four. Nevertheless, this oecasional variation in number of syllables is not introduced wantoniy, or for the mere ends of convenience, but in correspondence...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion. * T" the edition of l8l6. CHBISTiBEL PART THE FIRST. TlS the middle of night by the castle elock, And... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 ページ
...Christabel, and like Goethe's Erl King, has several variations introduced (as Coleridge says of his own) 'in correspondence with some transition in the nature of the imagery or passion.' The ' new principle,' in short, was Chatterton's. Again, in the mysterious suggestiveness of remote... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1882 - 448 ページ
...found to be -only four. Nevertheless this occasional variation in number of Syllables is not ratroduced wantonly, or for the mere ends of convenience, but...transition, in the nature of the imagery or passion. PART I. Tis the middle of night by the castle clock, And the nwls have awakened the crowing cock ;... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 ページ
...four. Nevertheless this occasional variation in number of syllables is not introduced wantonly, or lor the mere ends of convenience, but in correspondence...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion. PAUT I. Trsthemiddleofnight by the castle clock. And the owls have awaken'd the erowing To — whit!... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1884 - 312 ページ
...friend! for I variation in me numoer 01 syiiauies la uui luuuuuueu wmiiumy, ur lor me mere enas 01 convenience, but in correspondence with some transition, in the nature of the imagery or PART I. 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock, And the owls have awakened the crowing cock;... | |
 | 1886 - 856 ページ
...all these rhythmical effects so as to heighten the imaginative impression of a poem, to vary them " in correspondence with some transition in the nature of the imagery or passion," as Coleridge says, is one of the poet's most incommunicable secrets, and I for one shall not try to... | |
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I have only to add, that the metre of the Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded on a new principle: namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables. Though the latter may vary... 
