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Thomas Allsop : Letters, Conversations and Recollections of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘...it is very cruel in people whom I never injured to publish my father’s natural complaints of my delinquencies to the million whom they concern not - still worse to promulgate what can do no credit either to the living or to the dead, and must convey very false impressions to the public...and most infamous to assume the character of author of the publication of what the Traitor has no moral right in, garnish’d with nonsense which is certainly peculiarly and absolutely his own. ... I owe Master [Thomas] Allsop a licking. To be sure, he has the excuse of idiocy, which [Thomas] De Q[uincey]. could not plead. ...’

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

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