socio

Updated: August 18, 2026

Be it, that, by an unconscionable extension of the old adage, noscitur a socio, my literary friends are never under the water-fall of criticism, but I must be wet through with the spray; yet how came the torrent to descend upon them? First then, with regard to Mr. Southey. I well remember the general reception of his earlier publications; namely, the poems published with Mr.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographia Literaria