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PITHY QUOTE FROM Coleridge: Collected Letters

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I asked a stupid haughty fool, who is the Librarian of the Dean & Chapter's Library in this city, if he had Leibnitz. He answered — 'We have no Museum in this Library for natural curiosities; but there is a mathematical Instrument-seller in the town, who shews such [an]imalcula thro' a glass of great magnifying powers.' Heaven & Earth! — he understood the word 'live Nits.'

The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Letter to Robert Southey # 406, July 1801

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The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Electronic Edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-385-2

Language: English

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, c. 1795

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The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge contains the complete edition of Coleridge's letters, augmented by his early family letters and the letters of his son, Hartley, all from Oxford University Press.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Coleridge - The Early Family Letters. Edited with an introduction by James Engell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

_____. Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Earl Leslie Griggs. 6 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956-1971. Rpt. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Coleridge, Hartley. The Letters of Hartley Coleridge. Edited by Grace Evelyn Griggs and Earl Leslie Griggs. London: Oxford University Press, 1936.



"There are cases," Coleridge once wrote, "in which more value may be conveyed by the history of a word than by the history of a campaign," and these Past Masters [collections] constitute a great aid to such enterprises. . . .

Impressive care has been taken in establishing these texts.

—Journal of the History of Ideas