Show coler dge the sold er subsistence could not however be mode on the reading and writing of pamphlets nor the means of livelihood obtained by the most eloquent and en of conversations and coler idge finding himself both forlorn and destitute in I 1 ondon enlisted as a sol dier in the fifteenth ell ot s life dragoons bays the english house beautiful on his arrival at the q barters of the regiment says his friend and bl ogra pher mr gallman the general of the district inspected the recruits and looking aard at coleridge with a military air inquired what s your name sira cumberbach Com berbach the name he had assumed what do you come here for ira as if doubting whether he had any business there sir sa d coleridge for what most persons come to be made a soldier do you think said he general you can run a frenchman through the bodye I 1 do not know replied coleridge as I 1 have never tried but I 1 II 11 let a french man run me through the body before run awa that will do said the general and coleridge was turned into the ranks |