More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives…
  2. In the treatment of nervous cases, he is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
  3. A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately…
  4. You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendere…
  5. He told me that facts gave birth to, and were the absolute ground of, principles; to which I said, that unless he had a principle of select…
  6. The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but …
  7. The Pilgrim's Progress is composed in the lowest style of English, without slang or false grammar. If you were to polish it, you would at o…
  8. I am glad you came in to punctuate my discourse, which I fear has gone on for an hour without any stop at all.

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