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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Samuel Taylor Coleridge's work Biographia Literaria (1st edition, 1817, 2 volumes; and 2nd edition, 1847, 3 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

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1st edition (1817)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Coleridge Biographia Literaria|volume=I|page=65|passage={{quote-gloss|Of Southey}} I look in vain for any writer, who has conveyed so much information, from so many and such '''recondite''' sources, with so many just and original reflections, in a style so lively and poignant, yet so uniformly classical and perspicuous; {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Coleridge Biographia Literaria|I|65|{{quote-gloss|Of Southey}} I look in vain for any writer, who has conveyed so much information, from so many and such '''recondite''' sources, with so many just and original reflections, in a style so lively and poignant, yet so uniformly classical and perspicuous; {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1817, S T Coleridge, “The Author’s Obligations to Critics, and the Probable Occasion—Principles of Modern Criticism—Mr. Southey’s Works and Character”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, , →OCLC, page 65:

    I look in vain for any writer, who has conveyed so much information, from so many and such recondite sources, with so many just and original reflections, in a style so lively and poignant, yet so uniformly classical and perspicuous;

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Coleridge Biographia Literaria|volume=II|pages=214–215|pageref=215|passage=But it {{quote-gloss|our hotel}} has one great advantage for a stranger, by being in the market place, and the next neighbour of the huge church of St. Nicholas: {{...}} A better '''pole-star''' could scarcely be desired.}}
• Result:
  • 1817, S T Coleridge, “Satyrane’s Letters. Letter II. (To a Lady.)”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume II, London: Rest Fenner, , →OCLC, pages 214–215:

    But it has one great advantage for a stranger, by being in the market place, and the next neighbour of the huge church of St. Nicholas: A better pole-star could scarcely be desired.

2nd edition (1847)

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Coleridge Biographia Literaria|edition=2nd|volume=II|date=4 July 1796|author=w:Samuel Taylor Coleridge|subchapter=Chapter III. |page=370|passage=My Poems have been reviewed. The Monthly has '''cataracted''' panegyric on me; the Critical cascaded it, and the Analytical dribbled it with civility.|footer=From a letter to ].}}
• Result:
  • 1796 July 4 (date written), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Biographical Supplement to the Biographia Literaria. Chapter III. .”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions  Second Edition Prepared for Publication in Part by the Late Henry Nelson Coleridge: Completed and Published by His Widow.">…], 2nd edition, volume II, part II, London: William Pickering, published 1847, →OCLC, page 370:

    My Poems have been reviewed. The Monthly has cataracted panegyric on me; the Critical cascaded it, and the Analytical dribbled it with civility.

    From a letter to Thomas Poole.