More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, - as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' …
  2. The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.
  3. Schiller has the material sublime.
  4. Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, o…
  5. Humour is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
  6. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry …
  7. 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…
  8. The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was …

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