“Your Sensibilities are tempestuous — you feel Indignation at Weakness — Now Indignation is the handsome Brother of Anger & Hatred — His looks are "lovely in terror" — yet still remember, who are his Relations.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Letter to Robert Southey (29 December 1794).
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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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