Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
… part in less imaginative forms. It is the dire epidemic of man in the social state to forget the substance in the appearance, the essence in the form. Hence almost every where we behold religion degraded into ceremonies, and then by … of sociability, he detailed 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; …
Affection | Benevolence | Conversation | Family | Friendship | Imagination | Patriotism | Science | Sympathy
Encyclopedia