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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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Charles, grave or merry, at no lie would stick,
And taught at length his memory the same trick.
Believing thus what he so oft repeats,
He's brought the thing to such a pass, poor youth,
That now himself and no one else he cheats,
Save when unluckily he tells the truth.
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