Top 25 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of 480 - Page 18

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Law, Judging, Criminals

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Criminals, Matter, Authority

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life, Sea, Rivers

Her skin was white as leprosy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sarcastic, White, Skins

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 190 (1798)

And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Brain, Madness

'Christabel' pt. 2 (1800) (l. 408)

The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Flower, Rose, Red

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1817). “Sibylline leaves: a collection of poems”, p.5

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rocks, White, Silence

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.306

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Law, Long

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fall, Autumn, Light

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.251

I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Law, Judging, Criminals

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christian, Prayer, Philosophy

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.6

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life, Farewell, Men

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 613 (1798)

Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Art, Passion, Men

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.2609, e-artnow

And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life, Love You, Heaven

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.1194, Delphi Classics

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Intelligent, Imagination, Soul

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.1465, e-artnow

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love, Animal, Race

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1857). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.25

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 service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Spiritual, Believe, Offering

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.284

The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Spring, Humanity, Mountain

Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Du ntzer, Percy Pinkerton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1902). “The Maid of Oreleans; The Bride of Messina; Wilhelm Tell; Demetrius; The Piccolomini; The Death of Wallenstein; Wallenstein's Camp”

Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fire, Hot, Genius

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.297

Bells, the poor man's only music.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men, Bells, Poor

1798 'Frost at Midnight'.

...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life, Circles, Organization

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1848). “Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life”, p.31

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Skills, Giving, Instinct

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1957). “Notebooks”

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart, Attachment, Discipline

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1: Lectures, 1795: On Politics and Religion”, p.46, Princeton University Press