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“I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.”
Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng”
Source: Selected Poetry
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes
Source: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)
“To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.”
Source: Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes
“Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
Source: Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.”
Source: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist”
Source: On the Constitution of the Church and State
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.”
“A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.”
“We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.”
“I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.”
Source: The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)
“Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.”
“I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.”
Source: Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections
Source: On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
Source: The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
Source: Miscellanies, æsthetic and literary: to which is added The theory of life, collected and arranged by T. Ashe
Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
“The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Letters: selected & with an introd
“The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.”
“History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.”