Ralph Waldo Emerson, for example, wrote poetry based on the Bhagavad Gita and paid tribute in person to Coleridge and Carlyle.

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But he has raked up much engaging historic detail that runs from the mutton suet applied to Samuel Coleridge's leather walking-boots to descriptions of mock sea-battles staged on the lakes.

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The Roycrofters began printing books in 1895, starting with the Song of Songs and the Book of Job, moving on to works by Shakespeare, Coleridge, Emerson, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, to say nothing of Hubbard's own titles.

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Two top jobs, chairman of Lloyd's of London and private secretary to the queen, are held by Etonians (respectively, David Coleridge and Sir Robert Fellowes) who list no other education.

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The settings, too, are interiors: cramped rooms, generally lent by understanding friends after Coleridge had left his wife and children in the Lake District and decided to become a man of letters in London.

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