Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
… the form of social interaction he treasured in contradistinction to Sarah’s attention to appearances and ‘gentlemanly manners’: ‘I love warm Rooms, comfortable fires, & food, books, natural scenery, music, &c; but I do not care what … – or what is called, Gentility. In the same spirit, I dislike, at least I seldom like, Gentlemen, gentlemanly manners, &c. […] As I seem to exist, as it were, almost wholly within myself, in t houghts rather than in things, […] & …
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