Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Ode on the Departing Year - Coleridge
(1796)
“ Coleridge's "Ode on the Departing Year" is one of the rarest books in modern poetical literature, only some five, or at most six, copies being known. It is very interesting to find another turning up now. ”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Ode on the Departing Year - Coleridge
(1796)
“ Of this brochure no copy is believed to have appeared for either public or private sale during the last eighteen years; and indeed, only three examples in all were until quite recently known to Coleridge specialists. One of these is in the Rowlant Library, the possession of Mr. Frederick Locker-Lampson; a second is preserved in the British Museum—both being sadly "cut." Such being the case, the pamphlet has naturally been the object of keen search on the part of hunters after bibliographical rarities. ”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Ode on the Departing Year - Coleridge
(1796)
“ The Supplies are granted: and in the mean time the Arch-duke Charles turns the scale of Victory on the Rhine, and Buonaparte is checked before Mantua. Straightways, our courtly Messenger is commanded to uncurl his lips, and propose to the lofty Republic to restore all its conquests, and to suffer England to retain all hers, (at least all her important ones) as the only terms of Peace, and the ultimatum of the negociation!Θρασυνει γαρ αισχρομητιςταλαινα ΠΑΡΑΚΟΠΑ πρωτοπημωνÆschyl. Ag. 230.The friends of Freedom in this country are idle. Some are timid; some are selfish ”
