The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1853 |
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... are too often considered as so true that they lose all the powers of truth , and lie bed - ridden in the dormitory of the soul , side by side with the most despised and exploded errors . But as the class of critics , whose contempt I ...
... are too often considered as so true that they lose all the powers of truth , and lie bed - ridden in the dormitory of the soul , side by side with the most despised and exploded errors . But as the class of critics , whose contempt I ...
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