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In a burst of Coleridgian inspiration, she writes: “The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2022

Bland, who at last became a professed Catholic, was something of a Coleridgian transcendentalist, though he treated a copy of Bakunin's God and the State to a handsome binding.

From The History of the Fabian Society by Pease, Edward R.

The essence, in short, of the Coleridgian ontology consists in the alteration of a single though a very important word in the well-known Cartesian formula.

From English Men of Letters: Coleridge by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)

Another summer excursion was a visit to Chamouni, of which he has left memorable descriptions in his letters to Peacock, and in the somewhat Coleridgian verses on Mont Blanc.

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by Symonds, John Addington

The unction of that blessing called down upon his persecutor is truly Coleridgian.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry