More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. The true key to the declension of the Roman empire - which is not to be found in all Gibbon's immense work - may be stated in two words: - …
  2. I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any se…
  3. I am glad you came in to punctuate my discourse, which I fear has gone on for an hour without any stop at all.
  4. Farce may often border on tragedy; indeed, farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.
  5. The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but …
  6. If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The most…
  7. 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…
  8. Dryden's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

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