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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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Literary Critic
Philosopher
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Theologian
Ottery St Mary
Devon
S. T. Coleridge
Blessedness
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