Samuel Taylor Coleridge — a remark

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“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.”

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About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

21 October 1772–25 July 1834

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in Ottery St Mary, Devon, and died on 25 July 1834 at Highgate, near London. He occupies an unusual and commanding place in English literary history: he was at once one of the makers of Romantic poetry, a revolutionary critic of Shakespeare and poetic language, a…

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