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    A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    By May Clarissa Gillington Byron

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge - May Clarissa Gillington Byron

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      Title: A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

      Author: May Byron

      Release Date: June 6, 2011 [EBook #36337]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DAY WITH SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ***

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      THE CREW OF THE SKELETON SHIP.

      "Are those her ribs through which the Sun

      Did peer, as through a grate?

      And is that Woman all her crew?

      Is that a Death? and are there two?

      Is Death that woman's mate?

      "Her lips were red, her looks were free,

      Her locks were yellow as gold:

      Her skin was as white as leprosy....

      The naked hulk alongside came,

      And the twain were casting dice."

      ( The Ancient Mariner ).

      A DAY WITH

      SAMUEL

      TAYLOR

      COLERIDGE

      BY MAY BYRON

      LONDON

      HODDER & STOUGHTON

      In the same Series.

      Tennyson.

      Wordsworth.

      Browning.

      Burns.

      Byron.

      Keats.

      E. B. Browning.

      Whittier.

      Rossetti.

      Shelley.

      Longfellow.

      Scott.

      Whitman.

      Morris.

      A DAY WITH COLERIDGE.

      IN a beautiful part of beautiful Somerset, where the soft orchard and cottage scenery is dimpled between blue hillslopes, where meadows and woods and translucent streams compete with each other in charm,—in the lovely region of the Quantock hills, lies the quiet little market-village of Nether Stowey. About sunrise on a May morning of 1790, a young man awoke in a little wayside cottage there: and, resolutely thrusting back his natural inclination to indolence, rose and dressed, and set himself to the performance of such humble duties as devolve upon a very poor householder with a wife and child.

      Samuel Taylor Coleridge was in his twenty-sixth year: pale, stoutish, black-haired: not an immediately attractive man. His face, according to himself, bore evidence of great sloth and great, indeed almost idiotic, good nature: ... a mere carcase of a face; fat, flabby, and expressive chiefly of inexpressions, with a wide, thick-lipped, always-open mouth, and small feeble nose. Yet it was capable of being roused, on occasion, to something akin to nobility and beauty, and redeemed by the animation of his full, grey eyes. It was a face, in short, to match his general appearance, which he

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