We may "exert over our own heart a virtuous despotism, and lead our own Passions in triumph"
— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Work Title
Date
w. 1795
Metaphor
We may "exert over our own heart a virtuous despotism, and lead our own Passions in triumph"
Metaphor in Context
let us exert over our own hearts a virtuous despotism, and lead our own Passions in triumph, and then we shall want neither Monarch nor General
Categories
Provenance
Reading Saree Makdisi's William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (276)
Citation
Delivered in March of 1795 as Six Lectures on Revealed Religion, its Corruptions, and its Political Views; not published in the eighteenth century.
Text from the Collected Works, ed. Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1969), 2:229.
Text from the Collected Works, ed. Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1969), 2:229.
Theme
Rule of the Self
Date of Entry
05/02/2005
