The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With a Note on Coleridge (Classic Reprint)

If the favour shown to several modern instances Of works nominally of the same description as the present were alone to be considered, it might seem that the Old maxim, that nothing ought to be said Of the dead but what is good, is in a fair way Of being dilated into an understanding that everything is good that has been said by the dead. The following pages do not, I trust, stand in need of so much indulgence. Their contents may not, in every particular passage, be Of great intrinsic importance but they can hardly be without some, and, I hope, a worthy, interest, as coming from the lips of one at least of the most extra ordinary men Oi the age whilst to the best of my know ledge and intention, no living person's name is introduced, whether for praise or for blame, except on literary or political grounds Of common notoriety. Upon the justice of the remarks here published, it would be out of place in me to say anything; and a commentary Of that kind is the less needed, as, in almost every instance, the principles upon which the speaker founded his observations are expressly stated, and may be satisfactorily examined by themselves. But, for the purpose of general elucidation, it seemed not improper to add a few notes, and to make some quotations from Mr. Coleridge's own works and in doing so, I was in addition actuated by an earnest wish to call the attention of reflecting minds in general to the views of political, moral, and religious philosophy contained in those works, which, through an extensive, but now decreasing, prejudice, have hitherto been deprived of that acceptance with the public which their great preponderating merits deserve, and will, as I believe, finally Obtain. And I can truly say, that if, in the course Of the perusal of this little work, any one of its readers shall gain a clearer insight into the deep and pregnant principles, in the light of which Mr. Coleridge was accustomed to regard God and the World.

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