Antecedently to all history, and long glimmering through it as a holy tradition, there presents itself to our imagination an indefinite period, dateless as eternity; a state rather than a time. For even the sense of succession is lost in the uniformity of the stream.


The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Volume 2), Essay One (p. 19)

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Antecedently to all history, and long glimmering through it as a holy tradition, there presents itself to our imagination an indefinite period,...

Antecedently to all history, and long glimmering through it as a holy tradition, there presents itself to our imagination an indefinite period,...

Antecedently to all history, and long glimmering through it as a holy tradition, there presents itself to our imagination an indefinite period,...

Antecedently to all history, and long glimmering through it as a holy tradition, there presents itself to our imagination an indefinite period,...