# The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 3 Author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; Coleridge, Henry Nelson, 1798-1843 [Editor] Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8956 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Literary+Remains+of+Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge%2C+Volume+3+Coleridge&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Has or has not Grotius been overrated? If Grotius applied these words ('magnus testis et historiarum diligentissimus inquisitor') to Epiphanius in honest earnest, and not ironically, he must have been greatly inferior in sound sense and critical tact both to Joseph Scaliger and to Rhenferd. Strange, that to Henry More, a poet and a man of fine imagination, it should never have occurred to ask himself, whether this scene, Patmos, with which the drama commences, was not a part of the poem, and, like all other parts, to be interpreted symbolically? That the poetic--and I see no reason for doubting the real--date of the Apocalypse is under Vespasian, is so evidently implied in the five kings... ## Chapters - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literary-remains-of-samuel-taylor-coleridge-volume-3-8956/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literary-remains-of-samuel-taylor-coleridge-volume-3-8956/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literary-remains-of-samuel-taylor-coleridge-volume-3-8956/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literary-remains-of-samuel-taylor-coleridge-volume-3-8956/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literary-remains-of-samuel-taylor-coleridge-volume-3-8956/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literary-remains-of-samuel-taylor-coleridge-volume-3-8956/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literary-remains-of-samuel-taylor-coleridge-volume-3-8956/chapters/4/index.md)