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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2)

Note 1014:2 — METRICAL EXPERIMENTS[1014:1]

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Sumptuous Tyranny floating this way. [MS.] On p. 17 of Notebook 22 Coleridge writes:—

¯ ˘ ˘, ¯ ˘ ˘, ¯ ˘, ¯ Drunk with I—dolatry—drunk with, Wine.

A noble metre if I can find a metre to precede or follow.

Sūmptŭŏus Dālĭlă flōatĭng thŭs wāy Drunk with Idolatry, drunk with wine.

Both lines are from Milton's Samson Agonistes.

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