Samuel Coleridge

Also known as Hon. Samuel John Taylor Coleridge, Brig. Hon. Samuel Coleridge, Brig. Hon. Samuel John Taylor Coleridge

Family

Also known as Hon. Samuel John Taylor Coleridge, Brig. Hon. Samuel Coleridge, Brig. Hon. Samuel John Taylor Coleridge

Notable quotes

“                                                 When the last rook Beat its straight path along the dusky air”
— "This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison", st. 3 (1800)
“Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines.”
— St. 1
“Iago's soliloquy—the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful it is!”
— Part II: "The Lectures and Notes of 1818", Section IV: "Notes on Some Other Plays of Shakespeare", § "Othello", p. 388
“The anxiety to be admired is a loveless passion ... , loud on the hustings, gay in the ball-room, mute and sullen at the family fireside.”
— Comment on Aphorism 101, pp. 169–170
“Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression. Nature has her proper interest; & he will know what it is, who believes & feels, that every Thing has a life of it's own, & that we are all one Life.”
— Letter to William Sotheby (10 September 1802)
“How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death — & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End — for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?”
— Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825)

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