Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSpecimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a full collection of Coleridge's conversations and writings. Excerpt: "It is nearly fifteen years since I was, for the first time, enabled to become a frequent and attentive visitor in Mr. Coleridge's domestic society. His exhibition of intellectual power in living discourse struck me at once as unique and transcendent; and upon my return home, on the very first evening which I spent with him after my boyhood, I committed to writing, as well as I could, the principal topics of his conversation in his own words. I had no settled design at that time of continuing the work, but simply made the note in something like a spirit of vexation that such a strain of music as I had just heard, should not last forever." |
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