He was lying back comfortably in a deep arm-chair smoking a cigar, and ruminating the fruitful question as to whether coleridge had wished to marry Dorothy Wordsworth, and what, if he had done so, would have been the consequences to him in particular, and to literature in general.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
As coleridge phrased it: "All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love And feed his sacred flame."
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
Perhaps her two most noteworthy articles are the one called 'Evangelical Teaching,' published in 1855, and the other on 'Worldliness and other Worldliness,' which appeared in 1857. This happy phrase, by the way, was first used by coleridge, who says, "As there is a worldliness or the too much of this life, so there is another worldliness or rather other worldliness equally hateful and selfish with this worldliness."
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind