Arts & Sciences
Not a Critic--but a Judge
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Arts & Sciences
Whom should I choose for my Judge? the earnest, impersonal reader,
Who, in the work, forgets me and the world and himself!
You who have eyes to detect, and Gall to Chastise the imperfect,
Have you the heart, too, that loves,--feels and rewards the
Compleat?
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Codex Note
1805
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