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Quotation from The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
“Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those years, looking down on London and its smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle”
The Life of John Sterling, Part I, Ch. VIII
The opening of Carlyle's celebrated, half-mocking portrait of the aging Coleridge, whose talk drew Sterling and other young men to Highgate.
Citation: "Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those years, looking down on London and its smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle" — Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part I, Ch. VIII. (id life-of-john-sterling-q5)
