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Samuel Taylor, an English poet and philosopher; born in Ottery, St. Mary, Devons hire, Oct. 21, 1772. Leaving college he first enlisted and afterward took up his residence at Bristol with two congenial spirits, Robert Southey and Lovell. The three conceived the project of emigrating to America and establishing a community in which all should be equal, on the banks of the Susquehanna. ‘This scheme never became anything more than a theory, and was finally abandoned when the three friends married three sisters, the Mi es Fricket, of Bristol. In 1796 he took a cottage at Nether Stowey, in Somersets hire, where, soothed and supported by the companionship of Words worth, he wrote much of his best poetry, in particular the “ Ancient Mariner.” He died July 25, 1834.