It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.
James Russell Lowell
Hope
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.
James Russell Lowell
Coleridge.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.