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The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 by James Gillman
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[Footnote 9: In his biographical sketch of his literary life, he informs
us that he had translated the eight Hymns of Synesius from the Greek,
into English Anacreontica, before his fifteenth year.]


[Footnote 10:

... the childhood shews the man,
As morning shews the day ...

'Paradise Regained', book iv. v. 220.]


[Footnote 11: Aldine Edition, Vol. i. p. 6.--Pickering, London, 1834.]


[Footnote 12: Extract of a note written Dec. 1829.]


[Footnote 13:

"'Thought' and 'attention' very different things.--I never expected
the German (viz. selbst-muehige Erzeugung dessen, wovon meine Rede war)
from the readers of the 'Friend'.--I did expect the latter, and was
disappointed."

"This is a most important distinction, and in the new light afforded
by it to my mind, I see more plainly why mathematics cannot be a
substitute for Logic, much less for Metaphysics--i.e. transcendental
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