"He is a kind, good soul, full of religion and affection and poetry and animal magnetism. His cardinal sin is that he …"

"Coleridge was perhaps the most celebrated of all drinkers of laudanum, and splendid studies have been written of its …"

"How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death — & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Chr…"

"And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing, But, like a hawk encumber'd with his hood, Explaining metaphysics to the n…"

"Less active a politician, but a deeper philosopher, Coleridge continually reminds us of Burke. If the mantle of the a…"

"It was a great revolution in ideas when Coleridge and his friends began to talk not about the rights of property but …"

"His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Arch angel a little damaged ... Coleridge is absent bu…"

"Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a…"

"Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my pea…"

"The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a voc…"