Social Commentaries
Epigram: To be ruled like a Frenchman the Briton is loth
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
To be ruled like a Frenchman the Briton is loth,
Yet in truth a direct-tory governs them both.
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Codex Note
1798
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: To be ruled like a Frenchman the Briton is loth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/293/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: To be ruled like a Frenchman the Briton is loth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/293/.
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