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Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Summer, July, Usual
Quoted in a letter from Charles Lamb to V. Novello, 9 May 1826

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
States, Civilized, Ought
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “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”, p.2870, e-artnow

On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Drama, Reality, Greek
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.60

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
May, Fancy, Forgotten
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions. Ed. by [William Greenougl Thayer] Shedd in 7 Vol”, p.57

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dream, Men, Substance
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund (1933). “Unpublished letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: including certain letters republished from original sources”

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Effort, Greek, Style
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.256

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hands, Pockets, Stolen
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.11

During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Two, Priorities, United
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.151

I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz . that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Should Have, Imagination, Paradise
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “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”, p.4115, e-artnow

To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life, Heart, Feelings
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Knowledge, Proportion, Objects
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality, and religion”, p.54

Ancestral voices prophesying war.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
War, Voice, Prophecy
"Kubla Khan" l. 29 (1816)

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Strong, Blow, Moral
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund (1933). “Unpublished letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: including certain letters republished from original sources”

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Use, Language, Company
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.97

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hunting, Awful, Motive
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, p.50

And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Eye, Hair, Circles
"Kubla Khan" l. 51 (1816)

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life, Flower, Love Is
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2012). “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, p.73, Courier Corporation

Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Long, Stalking, Solemn
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1847). “Works”, p.145

Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Memories, Spring, Joy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.48

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Summer, Sweet, Apples
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.113

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sleep, Blessedness
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816). “Christabel; Kubla Khan, a vision; The pains of sleep”, p.30

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wife, May, Miserable
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].”, p.172

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gratitude, Emotional, Imagination

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Events, Today, Spirit
Wallenstein (1800).

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