Fancy Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.” quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Download Open image

“For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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