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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

including Poems and Versions of Poems now Published for the First Time: Edited with Textual and Bibliographical Notes by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

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VOL. I: POEMS
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VOL. II: DRAMATIC WORKS AND APPENDICES
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DRAMATIC WORKS
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THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE
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OSORIO
  
[prologue]
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ACT THE FIRST
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ACT THE SECOND
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ACT THE THIRD
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ACT THE FOURTH
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ACT THE FIFTH
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THE PICCOLOMINI
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THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN
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REMORSE
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ZAPOLYA
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EPIGRAMS
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JEUX D'ESPRIT
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FRAGMENTS FROM A NOTEBOOK
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FRAGMENTS
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METRICAL EXPERIMENTS
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APPENDIX V

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The finer the sense for the beautiful and the lovely, and the fairer and lovelier the object presented to the sense; the more exquisite the individual's capacity of joy, and the more ample his means and opportunities of enjoyment, the more heavily will he feel the ache of solitariness, the more unsubstantial becomes the feast spread around him. What matters it, whether in fact the viands and the ministering graces are shadowy or real, to him who has not hand to grasp nor arms to embrace them?

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