Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
… have been impossible Not to love all things in a world so filled; Where the breeze warbles, and the mute still air Is Music slumbering on her instrument.’ (‘The Eolian Harp’, PW I, 218) ‘The Eolian Harp’ composed at the time he was … to appearances and ‘gentlemanly manners’: ‘I love warm Rooms, comfortable fires, & food, books, natural scenery, music, &c; but I do not care what binding the Books have, whether they are dusty or clean - & I dislike fine furniture, …
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