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Excerpt from Coleridge's the Rime of the Ancient Mariner: And Other Poems
As he was without money or friends, he was sent to the great London Charity School, Christ's Hospital, which Lamb has described so vividly in Elia.
Here his life was by no means an easy one. Once, indeed, he tried to escape, and became the apprentice of a shoe-maker, but he was forced to go back to school again. Coleridge, however, had an unfailing refuge from all the ills that aficted him. This was the dream world in which from his earliest years he lived much of the time This $5tn spiri t of imagination he says Nahum gem.
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