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Letter "S" » Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
«Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Pity
| Keywords:
fellowship, woe
«You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
assuming, begun, by and by, come on, commons, competencies, competency, flattering, gratified, House of, House of Commons, institutions, meddling, multitude, Prophecies, refined, sneered, sneering, sneers, spoil, the House of Commons, verified, verifies, verify, vulgar
«When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
ivy, owlet, The Wolf, tod, wolf
«Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''»
«The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.»
«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.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
apple tree, bare, betwixt, branch, clothe, greenness, mossy, redbreast, seasons, summer sweet, tuft, tufts
«With Donne whose muse on dromedary trots, / Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Donne, dromedaries, dromedary, knots, pokers, trot, trots, trotted, Trotting, wreathe, wreathed
«The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light of the glow-worm, which gives no heat, and illumines nothing but itself»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Judaism
| Keywords:
glow, Glow worm, illumine, illumines, worm
«Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Sympathy
| Keywords:
constitutes, opposing, strives
«All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Selfishness,
Sympathy
| Keywords:
acknowledged, disguised
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