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Article: "Properer for a Sermon": Particularities of Dissent and Coleridge's Conversational Mode.(Critical Essay)
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- Studies in Romanticism
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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... Once I saw (Hallowing his Sabbath-day by quietness) A wealthy son of commerce saunter by, Bristowa's citizen: methought, it calmed His thirst of idle gold, and made him muse With wiser feelings.
--"Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement" (9-14)(1)
A WELL-KNOWN TURNING POINT IN COLERIDGE'S EARLY CAREER IS JANUary 1798, when the young poet, lecturer, journalist, and preacher received the offer of a 150 [pounds sterling] annuity from the Wedgwood family. At the time, Coleridge was preparing to accept the position of minister to the Unitarian chapel at Shrewsbury, which came with a salary of 120 [pounds sterling] and a house worth 30 [pounds ...