EBOOK TABLE TALK OF S.T.COLERIDGE ***
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[The Greek transliterations throughout this file are either missing or
very suspect.]
[Illustration: F. Finden sculp.
_London, John Murray, Albernarle St. 1837_]
[autographed:
Dear Sir,
Your obliged servant.
S. T. Coleridge]
SPECIMENS
OF THE
TABLE TALK
OF
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
TO
JAMES GILLMAN, ESQUIRE,
OF THE GROVE, HIGHGATE, AND TO
MRS. GILLMAN,
This Volume IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED.
PREFACE.
* * * * *
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 transcendant; 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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