3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on History

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on history

135. The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

141. 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 is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!

147. 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: - the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.