----'s
disregard
of Painting.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This he thought the very great merit of the poem.
"When we walked home with him to the inn, he got on the subject of the
English Essay for the year at Oxford, and thought some consideration of the
corruption of language should he introduced into it.
[Footnote: On Etymology. ]
It originated, he thought, in a desire to abbreviate all expression as much
as possible; and no doubt, if in one word, without violating idiom, I can
express what others have done in more, and yet be as fully and easily
understood, I have manifestly made an improvement; but if, on the other
hand, it becomes harder, and takes more time to comprehend a thought or
image put in one word by Apuleius than when expressed in a whole sentence
by Cicero, the saving is merely of pen and ink, and the alteration is
evidently a corruption. "
_"April_ 21. --Richmond. _
"Before breakfast we went into Mr. May's delightful book-room, where he was
again silent in admiration of the prospect. After breakfast, we walked to
church. He seemed full of calm piety, and said he always felt the most
delightful sensations in a Sunday church-yard,--that it struck him as if
God had given to man fifty-two springs in every year. After the service, he
was vehement against the sermon, as common-place, and invidious in its tone
towards the poor. Then he gave many texts from the lessons and gospel of
the day, as affording fit subjects for discourses. He ridiculed the
absurdity of refusing to believe every thing that you could not understand;
and mentioned a rebuke of Dr. Parr's to a man of the name of Frith, and
that of another clergyman to a young man, who said he would believe nothing
which he could not understand:--'Then, young man, your creed will be the
shortest of any man's I know. '
"As we walked up Mr. Cambridge's meadows towards Twickenham, he criticised
Johnson and Gray as poets, and did not seem to allow them high merit. The
excellence of verse, he said, was to be untranslatable into any other words
without detriment to the beauty of the passage;--the position of a single
word could not be altered in Milton without injury. Gray's
personifications, he said, were mere printer's devils' personifications--
persons with a capital letter, abstract qualities with a small one. He
thought Collins had more genius than Gray, who was a singular instance of a
man of taste, poetic feeling, and fancy, without imagination. He contrasted
Dryden's opening of the 10th satire of Juvenal with Johnson's:--
"'Let observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind from Ganges to Peru. '
which was as much as to say,--
"'Let observation with extensive observation observe mankind. '
"After dinner he told us a humorous story of his enthusiastic fondness for
Quakerism, when he was at Cambridge, and his attending one of their
meetings, which had entirely cured him. When the little children came in,
he was in raptures with them, and descanted upon the delightful mode of
treating them now, in comparison with what he had experienced in childhood.
He lamented the haughtiness with which Englishmen treated all foreigners
abroad, and the facility with which our government had always given up any
people which had allied itself to us, at the end of a war; and he
particularly remarked upon our abandonment of Minorca. These two things, he
said, made us universally disliked on the Continent; though, as a people,
most highly respected. He thought a war with America inevitable; and
expressed his opinion, that the United States were unfortunate in the
prematureness of their separation from this country, before they had in
themselves the materials of moral society--before they had a gentry and a
learned class,--the former looking backwards, and giving the sense of
stability--the latter looking forwards, and regulating the feelings of the
people.
"Afterwards, in the drawing-room, he sat down by Professor Rigaud, with
whom he entered into a discussion of Kant's System of Metaphysics. The
little knots of the company were speedily silent: Mr. C. 's voice grew
louder; and abstruse as the subject was, yet his language was so ready, so
energetic, and so eloquent, and his illustrations so very neat and
apposite, that the ladies even paid him the most solicitous and respectful
attention. They were really entertained with Kant's Metaphysics! At last I
took one of them, a very sweet singer, to the piano-forte; and, when there
was a pause, she began an Italian air. She was anxious to please him, and
he was enraptured. His frame quivered with emotion, and there was a titter
of uncommon delight on his countenance. When it was over, he praised the
singer warmly, and prayed she might finish those strains in heaven!
"This is nearly all, except some anecdotes, which I recollect of our
meeting with this most interesting, most wonderful man. Some of his topics
and arguments I have enumerated; but the connection and the words are lost.
And nothing that I can say can give any notion of his eloquence and
manner,--of the hold which he soon got on his audience--of the variety of
his stores of information--or, finally, of the artlessness of his habits,
or the modesty and temper with which he listened to, and answered
arguments, contradictory to his own. "--J. T. C.
The following address has been printed before; but it cannot be too widely
circulated, and it will form an appropriate conclusion to this volume.
_To Adam Steinmetz K----. _
MY DEAR GODCHILD,
I offer up the same fervent prayer for you now, as I did kneeling before
the altar, when you were baptized into Christ, and solemnly received as a
living member of his spiritual body, the Church.
Years must pass before you will be able to read, with an understanding
heart, what I now write. But I trust that the all-gracious God, the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Mercies, who, by his only-begotten
Son, (all mercies in one sovereign mercy! ) has redeemed you from the evil
ground, and willed you to be born out of darkness, but into light--out of
death, but into life--out of sin, but into righteousness, even into the
Lord our Righteousness; I trust that He will graciously hear the prayers of
your dear parents, and be with you as the spirit of health and growth in
body and mind!
My dear Godchild! --You received from Christ's minister at the baptismal
font, as your Christian name, the name of a most dear friend of your
father's, and who was to me even as a son, the late Adam Steinmetz, whose
fervent aspiration, and ever-paramount aim, even from early youth, was to
be a Christian in thought, word, and deed--in will, mind, and affections.
I too, your Godfather, have known what the enjoyments and advantages of
this life are, and what the more refined pleasures which learning and
intellectual power can bestow; and with all the experience that more than
threescore years can give, I now, on the eve of my departure, declare to
you, (and earnestly pray that you may hereafter live and act on the
conviction,) that health is a great blessing,--competence obtained by
honourable industry a great blessing,--and a great blessing it is to have
kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but that the greatest of
all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be
indeed a Christian. But I have been likewise, through a large portion of my
later life, a sufferer, sorely afflicted with bodily pains, languors, and
manifold infirmities; and, for the last three or four years, have, with few
and brief intervals, been confined to a sick-room, and, at this moment, in
great weakness and heaviness, write from a sick-bed, hopeless of a
recovery, yet without prospect of a speedy removal; and I, thus on the very
brink of the grave, solemnly bear witness to you, that the Almighty
Redeemer, most gracious in his promises to them that truly seek him, is
faithful to perform what he hath promised, and has preserved, under all my
pains and infirmities, the inward peace that passeth all understanding,
with the supporting assurance of a reconciled God, who will not withdraw
his spirit from me in the conflict, and in his own time will deliver me
from the Evil One!
O, my dear Godchild! eminently blessed are those who begin early to seek,
fear, and love their God, trusting wholly in the righteousness and
mediation of their Lord, Redeemer, Saviour, and everlasting High Priest,
Jesus Christ!
O preserve this as a legacy and bequest from your unseen Godfather and
friend,
S. T. COLERIDGE.
_Grove, Highgate, July_ 13. 1834.
He died on the 25th day of the same month.
INDEX.
* * * * *
A.
Abraham.
Abuse, Eloquence of.
Acoustics.
Acts, Origin of.
Adiaphori.
Advocate, Duties and Needs of an.
Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Alchemy.
All and the Whole.
America, United States of.
American Union, Northern and Southern States of the.
Americans, the.
Anarchy, Mental.
Ancient Mariner.
Animal Being, Scale of.
Ant and Bee.
Architecture, Gothic.
Ariosto and Tasso.
Aristotle.
Army and Navy, House of Commons appointing the Officers of the.
Article, Ninth.
Asgill.
-----and Defoe.
Astrology.
Atheist.
Autumn Day.
B.
Bacon.
Ball, Sir Alexander.
Baptismal Service.
Barrow and Dryden.
_Bartram's Travels_.
Baxter.
Beaumont and Fletcher.
----'s Dramas.
Beauty.
Behmen, Jacob.
Bentley.
Berkeley.
Bertram, Character of.
Bestial Theory.
Bible, Study of the.
----, Version of the.
Biblical Commentators.
Biographia Literaria.
Bitters and Tonics.
Black.
Black, Colonel.
Blumenbach and Kant's Races.
Books of Moses, Genuineness of.
Boswell.
Bourrienne.
Bowyer.
British Schoolmen.
Brooke, Lord.
Brown and Darwin.
Bull and Waterland.
Burke.
Burnet.
Buonaparte.
Byron, Lord.
----and H. Walpole's "Mysterious Mother. "
----, his Versification, and Don Juan.
C.
Caesarean Operation.
Cambridge Petition to admit Dissenters.
Canning.
Capital.
Catholicity.
Cavalier Slang.
Character, Differences of.
Charles I.
Chaucer.
Children, Gracefulness of,
Chillingworth,
Christ, Divinity of,
Christ's Hospital,
Christian Sabbath,
Christianity,
----, Scope of,
Church,
----, High Prizes and Revenues of
the,
----, National,
----of England,
----of Rome,
Churchmen,
Church Singing,
Citizens and Christians,
Claudian,
Clergy, Celibacy of the,
Coleridge's (Mr. ) System,
Colonization,
Colours,
----, Non-perception of,
Commons, House of,
----, the Reformed House of,
Compounds, Latin,
Consolation in Distress,
Constantine,
Constitution, English,
Corn Laws,
Coronation Oaths,
Crabbe and Southey,
Cramp, Charm for,
Craniology,
Crisis,
D.
Dancing, English and Greek,
Daniel,
Davy, Sir H. ,
Democracy,
----, with Slavery,
Devotional Spirit,
De vi Minimorum,
Dictation and Inspiration,
Diction of the Old and New Testament Version,
Diplomatists, modern,
Disfranchisement,
Dissenters,
Diversions of Purley,
Divines, old,
Divinity,
Dobrizhoffer,
Dog,
Don Quixote,
Douw's (Gerard) "Schoolmaster," and Titian's "Venus,"
Dramatists, the Old,
Drayton and Daniel,
Dreams,
----and Ghosts, Difference between Stories of,
Dryden,
----and Pope,
Dual, Neuter plural, and Verb singular,
E.
Education,
Egyptian Antiquaries,
Eldon's (Lord) Doctrine as to Grammar Schools,
Electricity,
Elegy,
Energy of Man and other Animals,
England,
----and Holland,
English and German,
Envy,
Epidemic Disease,
Epistles to the Ephesians and Colossians,
----to the Hebrews,
----to the Romans,
Erasmus,
Etymology of the final _Ive_,
Eucharist, the,
Euripides,
Euthanasia,
Evangelicals, Mock,
F.
Faith,
----, Articles of,
----and Belief
Fantasy and Imagination,
Fatalism and Providence,
Fathers, the,
Faust,
Fees, Barristers' and Physicians',
Fielding and Richardson,
Fine Arts, Patronage of the,
Flaccus, Valerius,
Flogging,
Food,
Fox and Pitt,
French, the,
----Gendarmerie,
----Hereditary Peerage, Abolition of the,
G.
Galileo, Newton, Kepler, Bacon,
Galvanism,
Gas, Hydro-carbonic,
Gender of the Sun in German,
Genius,
Genius, Criterion of.
----, Feminine.
----, Metaphysical.
----of the Spanish and Italians.
German.
----Blank Verse.
----and English.
Ghosts,
Gibbon,
Gifford's Massier,
Giotto,
Gnosis,
God, Proof of Existence of,
----'s Providence,
Goethe,
Good and the True, the,
Government,
Grammar,
Gray and Cotton
Great Minds androgynous,
----Poets, good Men,
Greek,
----, Italian, and English, pure Ages of,
----Accent and Quantity,
----Drama,
----Particles,
Grey, Earl,
H.
Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams,
Hahnemann,
Hall, Captain B. ,
----and the Americans,
Hamlet,
Hampden's Speech,
Harmony,
Heat,
Hebrew,
Hermesianax,
Herodotus,
Hesiod,
Hieronimo,
History,
----, Jewish,
Hobbism,
Holland and Belgium,
----and the Dutch,
Homer,
Homeric Heroes in Shakspeare,
Hooker,
Hooker and Bull,
Horner,
Humour and Genius,
Hypothesis,
Hysteria,
I.
Iapetic and Semitic,
Ideal Tory and Whig,
Ideal Truths, Reverence for,
Ideas,
Imitation and Copy,
Incarnation,
Inherited Disease,
Insects,
Interest, Monied,
Investigation, Methods of,
Ireland, Union with,
Irish Church,
Iron,
Irving,
Isaac,
Italy, Roman Conquest of,
J.
Jacob,
Jacobins,
James I,
Jerusalem, Destruction of,
Jews,
----, Conversion of the,
----, Division of the Scripture,
----, in Poland,
Job, Book of,
Johnson, Dr. ,
----, his Political Pamphlets,
----, the Whig,
Jonson, Ben,
Junius,
Juries,
K.
Kant's Attempt,
Kant's Races of Mankind,
Kean,
Keats,
Keenness and Subtlety,
Kemble, John,
Kepler,
Knowledge,
Kotzebue,
L.
Lakes, Scotch and English,
Lamb, C. ,
Land and Money,
Landholders, Duty of,
Landor's (W. S. ) Poetry,
Laud,
Laughter, Farce and Tragedy,
Lavacrum Pallados,
Legislation, Iniquitous,
Leo X. ,
Lewis's Jamaica Journal,
Life, Constitutional and Functional,
Liturgy, English,
Logic,
----, Character of the Age for,
Logic of Ideas and of Syllogisms.
Logos, the.
"Lord, the," in the English Version of the Psalms.
Love.
----and Friendship opposed.
Love's Labour Lost.
Lucan.
Luther.
Lyell's Geology.
M.
Machinery.
Mackintosh, Sir James.
Madness.
Magnetism.
Malta.
Man cannot be stationary.
----Fall of.
----'s Freedom.
Mandeville's Fable of the Bees.
Manners under Edward III. , Richard II. , and Henry VIII.
Marriage.
----Parental Control in.
----of Cousins.
Martin.
Mason's Poetry.
Massier.
Materialism.
Mathews.
Measure for Measure.
Medicine.
Medicines, Specific.
Men.
Messenger of the Covenant.
Messiah.
Metre, Modern.
Miguel, Dom, and Dom Pedro.
Milesian Tales.
Milton.
----and Sydney.
----'s disregard of Painting.
----'s Egotism.
----'s Latin Poems.
Ministers and the Reform Bill.
Monarchy or Democracy, Prospect of.
Monro, Sir T.
Mosaic Miracles.
----Prophecies.
Motives and Impulses.
Music.
----, Ear and Taste for, different.
Musical Glasses, some Men like.
N.
Napier.
National Colonial Character and Naval Discipline.
----Debt.
Nations, Characteristic Temperament of.
Negro Emancipation.
Nervous Weakness.
New Testament Canon.
Newton.
Nitrous Oxide.
Nominalists and Realists.
Northern and Southern States.
Norwegians.
O.
Oath, Coronation.
Oaths.
Obstruction.
Origen.
Othello, Character of.
P.
Painting.
Pantheism.
----and Idolatry.
Papacy.
----, the, and the Reformation.
----and the Schoolmen.
Paradise Lost.
Park, Professor.
Parliamentary Privilege.
Party Spirit.
Penal Code in Ireland.
Penn, Granville, and the Deluge.
Pentameter, Greek and Latin.
Permanency and Progression of Nations.
Persius.
Persons and Things.
Peter Simple, and Tom Cringle's Log.
Phantom Portrait.
Philanthropists.
Philosopher's ordinary Language.
Philosophy, Greek.
----, Moral.
----, Mr. Coleridge's System of.
----of young Men of the present Day.
Pictures.
Pilgrim's Progress.
Pirates.
Plants.
Plato.
----and Xenophon.
Plotinus.
Poem, Epic.
Poetic Promise.
Poetical Filter.
Poetry.
----, Persian and Arabic.
Poison.
Polarity, Moral Law of.
Political Action, the two Modes of.
Political Economy, Modern.
Polonius.
Poor Laws.
Popedom.
Prayer.
Preaching extempore.
Presbyterians, Independents, and Bishops.
Principle, Greatest Happiness.
Principles and Facts.
----and Maxims.
Professions and Trades.
Propertius.
Property Tax.
Prophecies of the Old Testament.
Prophecy.
Prose and Poetry.
----and Verse.
Prudentius.
Psalms, Translation of the.
Puritans and Cavaliers.
----and Jacobins.
Q.
Quacks.
Quakerism, Modern.
Quakers.
Quarantine.
R.
Rabelais.
----and Luther.
Raffles, Sir S.
Rainbow.
Reason and Understanding.
Reasoner, a.
Redemption.
Reform of the House of Commons.
----Bill.
----, Conduct of Ministers on the.
Reformation.
----, English.
Religion.
Religion gentilizes.
----of the Greeks.
-----, Roman Catholic.
-----, Romish
Representation, Popular.
----, Direct.
Restoration.
Review, Principles of a.
Revolution.
----, Belgian.
----, French.
----, Intellectual.
Rhenferd.
Roman Conquest.
----Empire. Key to the Decline of the.
----Mind.
----Catholics.
----Catholic Emancipation.
Rosetti on Dante.
S.
Sallust.
Sandford, Bishop.
Sanskrit.
Sarpi, Paul.
Scanderbeg.
Scarlett, Sir J.
Schemes, Spinozistic and Hebrew.
Schiller.
----'s Robbers.
----'s Versification.
Schmidt.
Schools, Infant.
----, Public.
Scotch and English.
----Kirk and Irving.
----Novels.
Scott, Michael.
----and Coleridge.
----'s Novels.
Sectarianism.
Seneca.
Shakspeare.
----, _in Minimis_.
----'s Intellectual Action.
----'s Sonnets.
Sicily.
Sidney, Sir P.
Sin and Sins.
Smith, Robert.
Society, best State of.
Socinianism.
Socrates.
Solomon.
Sophocles.
Southey.
----'s Life of Bunyan.
Speech, Parts of.
Spenser.
Spinosa.
Spurzheim.
Spurzheim and Craniology.
St. John.
----'s Gospel.
----, Chap. xix. Ver. 11.
----, Chap. iii. Ver. 4.
St. Paul's Melita.
State.
----, a.
----, Idea of a.
Statesmen.
Statius.
Steinmetz.
Stella.
Sterne.
Style.
----, Algernon Sydney's.
----, Modern.
Sublime and Nonsense.
Sublimity.
Suffiction.
Superstition of Maltese, Sicilians, and Italians.
"When we walked home with him to the inn, he got on the subject of the
English Essay for the year at Oxford, and thought some consideration of the
corruption of language should he introduced into it.
[Footnote: On Etymology. ]
It originated, he thought, in a desire to abbreviate all expression as much
as possible; and no doubt, if in one word, without violating idiom, I can
express what others have done in more, and yet be as fully and easily
understood, I have manifestly made an improvement; but if, on the other
hand, it becomes harder, and takes more time to comprehend a thought or
image put in one word by Apuleius than when expressed in a whole sentence
by Cicero, the saving is merely of pen and ink, and the alteration is
evidently a corruption. "
_"April_ 21. --Richmond. _
"Before breakfast we went into Mr. May's delightful book-room, where he was
again silent in admiration of the prospect. After breakfast, we walked to
church. He seemed full of calm piety, and said he always felt the most
delightful sensations in a Sunday church-yard,--that it struck him as if
God had given to man fifty-two springs in every year. After the service, he
was vehement against the sermon, as common-place, and invidious in its tone
towards the poor. Then he gave many texts from the lessons and gospel of
the day, as affording fit subjects for discourses. He ridiculed the
absurdity of refusing to believe every thing that you could not understand;
and mentioned a rebuke of Dr. Parr's to a man of the name of Frith, and
that of another clergyman to a young man, who said he would believe nothing
which he could not understand:--'Then, young man, your creed will be the
shortest of any man's I know. '
"As we walked up Mr. Cambridge's meadows towards Twickenham, he criticised
Johnson and Gray as poets, and did not seem to allow them high merit. The
excellence of verse, he said, was to be untranslatable into any other words
without detriment to the beauty of the passage;--the position of a single
word could not be altered in Milton without injury. Gray's
personifications, he said, were mere printer's devils' personifications--
persons with a capital letter, abstract qualities with a small one. He
thought Collins had more genius than Gray, who was a singular instance of a
man of taste, poetic feeling, and fancy, without imagination. He contrasted
Dryden's opening of the 10th satire of Juvenal with Johnson's:--
"'Let observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind from Ganges to Peru. '
which was as much as to say,--
"'Let observation with extensive observation observe mankind. '
"After dinner he told us a humorous story of his enthusiastic fondness for
Quakerism, when he was at Cambridge, and his attending one of their
meetings, which had entirely cured him. When the little children came in,
he was in raptures with them, and descanted upon the delightful mode of
treating them now, in comparison with what he had experienced in childhood.
He lamented the haughtiness with which Englishmen treated all foreigners
abroad, and the facility with which our government had always given up any
people which had allied itself to us, at the end of a war; and he
particularly remarked upon our abandonment of Minorca. These two things, he
said, made us universally disliked on the Continent; though, as a people,
most highly respected. He thought a war with America inevitable; and
expressed his opinion, that the United States were unfortunate in the
prematureness of their separation from this country, before they had in
themselves the materials of moral society--before they had a gentry and a
learned class,--the former looking backwards, and giving the sense of
stability--the latter looking forwards, and regulating the feelings of the
people.
"Afterwards, in the drawing-room, he sat down by Professor Rigaud, with
whom he entered into a discussion of Kant's System of Metaphysics. The
little knots of the company were speedily silent: Mr. C. 's voice grew
louder; and abstruse as the subject was, yet his language was so ready, so
energetic, and so eloquent, and his illustrations so very neat and
apposite, that the ladies even paid him the most solicitous and respectful
attention. They were really entertained with Kant's Metaphysics! At last I
took one of them, a very sweet singer, to the piano-forte; and, when there
was a pause, she began an Italian air. She was anxious to please him, and
he was enraptured. His frame quivered with emotion, and there was a titter
of uncommon delight on his countenance. When it was over, he praised the
singer warmly, and prayed she might finish those strains in heaven!
"This is nearly all, except some anecdotes, which I recollect of our
meeting with this most interesting, most wonderful man. Some of his topics
and arguments I have enumerated; but the connection and the words are lost.
And nothing that I can say can give any notion of his eloquence and
manner,--of the hold which he soon got on his audience--of the variety of
his stores of information--or, finally, of the artlessness of his habits,
or the modesty and temper with which he listened to, and answered
arguments, contradictory to his own. "--J. T. C.
The following address has been printed before; but it cannot be too widely
circulated, and it will form an appropriate conclusion to this volume.
_To Adam Steinmetz K----. _
MY DEAR GODCHILD,
I offer up the same fervent prayer for you now, as I did kneeling before
the altar, when you were baptized into Christ, and solemnly received as a
living member of his spiritual body, the Church.
Years must pass before you will be able to read, with an understanding
heart, what I now write. But I trust that the all-gracious God, the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Mercies, who, by his only-begotten
Son, (all mercies in one sovereign mercy! ) has redeemed you from the evil
ground, and willed you to be born out of darkness, but into light--out of
death, but into life--out of sin, but into righteousness, even into the
Lord our Righteousness; I trust that He will graciously hear the prayers of
your dear parents, and be with you as the spirit of health and growth in
body and mind!
My dear Godchild! --You received from Christ's minister at the baptismal
font, as your Christian name, the name of a most dear friend of your
father's, and who was to me even as a son, the late Adam Steinmetz, whose
fervent aspiration, and ever-paramount aim, even from early youth, was to
be a Christian in thought, word, and deed--in will, mind, and affections.
I too, your Godfather, have known what the enjoyments and advantages of
this life are, and what the more refined pleasures which learning and
intellectual power can bestow; and with all the experience that more than
threescore years can give, I now, on the eve of my departure, declare to
you, (and earnestly pray that you may hereafter live and act on the
conviction,) that health is a great blessing,--competence obtained by
honourable industry a great blessing,--and a great blessing it is to have
kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but that the greatest of
all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be
indeed a Christian. But I have been likewise, through a large portion of my
later life, a sufferer, sorely afflicted with bodily pains, languors, and
manifold infirmities; and, for the last three or four years, have, with few
and brief intervals, been confined to a sick-room, and, at this moment, in
great weakness and heaviness, write from a sick-bed, hopeless of a
recovery, yet without prospect of a speedy removal; and I, thus on the very
brink of the grave, solemnly bear witness to you, that the Almighty
Redeemer, most gracious in his promises to them that truly seek him, is
faithful to perform what he hath promised, and has preserved, under all my
pains and infirmities, the inward peace that passeth all understanding,
with the supporting assurance of a reconciled God, who will not withdraw
his spirit from me in the conflict, and in his own time will deliver me
from the Evil One!
O, my dear Godchild! eminently blessed are those who begin early to seek,
fear, and love their God, trusting wholly in the righteousness and
mediation of their Lord, Redeemer, Saviour, and everlasting High Priest,
Jesus Christ!
O preserve this as a legacy and bequest from your unseen Godfather and
friend,
S. T. COLERIDGE.
_Grove, Highgate, July_ 13. 1834.
He died on the 25th day of the same month.
INDEX.
* * * * *
A.
Abraham.
Abuse, Eloquence of.
Acoustics.
Acts, Origin of.
Adiaphori.
Advocate, Duties and Needs of an.
Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Alchemy.
All and the Whole.
America, United States of.
American Union, Northern and Southern States of the.
Americans, the.
Anarchy, Mental.
Ancient Mariner.
Animal Being, Scale of.
Ant and Bee.
Architecture, Gothic.
Ariosto and Tasso.
Aristotle.
Army and Navy, House of Commons appointing the Officers of the.
Article, Ninth.
Asgill.
-----and Defoe.
Astrology.
Atheist.
Autumn Day.
B.
Bacon.
Ball, Sir Alexander.
Baptismal Service.
Barrow and Dryden.
_Bartram's Travels_.
Baxter.
Beaumont and Fletcher.
----'s Dramas.
Beauty.
Behmen, Jacob.
Bentley.
Berkeley.
Bertram, Character of.
Bestial Theory.
Bible, Study of the.
----, Version of the.
Biblical Commentators.
Biographia Literaria.
Bitters and Tonics.
Black.
Black, Colonel.
Blumenbach and Kant's Races.
Books of Moses, Genuineness of.
Boswell.
Bourrienne.
Bowyer.
British Schoolmen.
Brooke, Lord.
Brown and Darwin.
Bull and Waterland.
Burke.
Burnet.
Buonaparte.
Byron, Lord.
----and H. Walpole's "Mysterious Mother. "
----, his Versification, and Don Juan.
C.
Caesarean Operation.
Cambridge Petition to admit Dissenters.
Canning.
Capital.
Catholicity.
Cavalier Slang.
Character, Differences of.
Charles I.
Chaucer.
Children, Gracefulness of,
Chillingworth,
Christ, Divinity of,
Christ's Hospital,
Christian Sabbath,
Christianity,
----, Scope of,
Church,
----, High Prizes and Revenues of
the,
----, National,
----of England,
----of Rome,
Churchmen,
Church Singing,
Citizens and Christians,
Claudian,
Clergy, Celibacy of the,
Coleridge's (Mr. ) System,
Colonization,
Colours,
----, Non-perception of,
Commons, House of,
----, the Reformed House of,
Compounds, Latin,
Consolation in Distress,
Constantine,
Constitution, English,
Corn Laws,
Coronation Oaths,
Crabbe and Southey,
Cramp, Charm for,
Craniology,
Crisis,
D.
Dancing, English and Greek,
Daniel,
Davy, Sir H. ,
Democracy,
----, with Slavery,
Devotional Spirit,
De vi Minimorum,
Dictation and Inspiration,
Diction of the Old and New Testament Version,
Diplomatists, modern,
Disfranchisement,
Dissenters,
Diversions of Purley,
Divines, old,
Divinity,
Dobrizhoffer,
Dog,
Don Quixote,
Douw's (Gerard) "Schoolmaster," and Titian's "Venus,"
Dramatists, the Old,
Drayton and Daniel,
Dreams,
----and Ghosts, Difference between Stories of,
Dryden,
----and Pope,
Dual, Neuter plural, and Verb singular,
E.
Education,
Egyptian Antiquaries,
Eldon's (Lord) Doctrine as to Grammar Schools,
Electricity,
Elegy,
Energy of Man and other Animals,
England,
----and Holland,
English and German,
Envy,
Epidemic Disease,
Epistles to the Ephesians and Colossians,
----to the Hebrews,
----to the Romans,
Erasmus,
Etymology of the final _Ive_,
Eucharist, the,
Euripides,
Euthanasia,
Evangelicals, Mock,
F.
Faith,
----, Articles of,
----and Belief
Fantasy and Imagination,
Fatalism and Providence,
Fathers, the,
Faust,
Fees, Barristers' and Physicians',
Fielding and Richardson,
Fine Arts, Patronage of the,
Flaccus, Valerius,
Flogging,
Food,
Fox and Pitt,
French, the,
----Gendarmerie,
----Hereditary Peerage, Abolition of the,
G.
Galileo, Newton, Kepler, Bacon,
Galvanism,
Gas, Hydro-carbonic,
Gender of the Sun in German,
Genius,
Genius, Criterion of.
----, Feminine.
----, Metaphysical.
----of the Spanish and Italians.
German.
----Blank Verse.
----and English.
Ghosts,
Gibbon,
Gifford's Massier,
Giotto,
Gnosis,
God, Proof of Existence of,
----'s Providence,
Goethe,
Good and the True, the,
Government,
Grammar,
Gray and Cotton
Great Minds androgynous,
----Poets, good Men,
Greek,
----, Italian, and English, pure Ages of,
----Accent and Quantity,
----Drama,
----Particles,
Grey, Earl,
H.
Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams,
Hahnemann,
Hall, Captain B. ,
----and the Americans,
Hamlet,
Hampden's Speech,
Harmony,
Heat,
Hebrew,
Hermesianax,
Herodotus,
Hesiod,
Hieronimo,
History,
----, Jewish,
Hobbism,
Holland and Belgium,
----and the Dutch,
Homer,
Homeric Heroes in Shakspeare,
Hooker,
Hooker and Bull,
Horner,
Humour and Genius,
Hypothesis,
Hysteria,
I.
Iapetic and Semitic,
Ideal Tory and Whig,
Ideal Truths, Reverence for,
Ideas,
Imitation and Copy,
Incarnation,
Inherited Disease,
Insects,
Interest, Monied,
Investigation, Methods of,
Ireland, Union with,
Irish Church,
Iron,
Irving,
Isaac,
Italy, Roman Conquest of,
J.
Jacob,
Jacobins,
James I,
Jerusalem, Destruction of,
Jews,
----, Conversion of the,
----, Division of the Scripture,
----, in Poland,
Job, Book of,
Johnson, Dr. ,
----, his Political Pamphlets,
----, the Whig,
Jonson, Ben,
Junius,
Juries,
K.
Kant's Attempt,
Kant's Races of Mankind,
Kean,
Keats,
Keenness and Subtlety,
Kemble, John,
Kepler,
Knowledge,
Kotzebue,
L.
Lakes, Scotch and English,
Lamb, C. ,
Land and Money,
Landholders, Duty of,
Landor's (W. S. ) Poetry,
Laud,
Laughter, Farce and Tragedy,
Lavacrum Pallados,
Legislation, Iniquitous,
Leo X. ,
Lewis's Jamaica Journal,
Life, Constitutional and Functional,
Liturgy, English,
Logic,
----, Character of the Age for,
Logic of Ideas and of Syllogisms.
Logos, the.
"Lord, the," in the English Version of the Psalms.
Love.
----and Friendship opposed.
Love's Labour Lost.
Lucan.
Luther.
Lyell's Geology.
M.
Machinery.
Mackintosh, Sir James.
Madness.
Magnetism.
Malta.
Man cannot be stationary.
----Fall of.
----'s Freedom.
Mandeville's Fable of the Bees.
Manners under Edward III. , Richard II. , and Henry VIII.
Marriage.
----Parental Control in.
----of Cousins.
Martin.
Mason's Poetry.
Massier.
Materialism.
Mathews.
Measure for Measure.
Medicine.
Medicines, Specific.
Men.
Messenger of the Covenant.
Messiah.
Metre, Modern.
Miguel, Dom, and Dom Pedro.
Milesian Tales.
Milton.
----and Sydney.
----'s disregard of Painting.
----'s Egotism.
----'s Latin Poems.
Ministers and the Reform Bill.
Monarchy or Democracy, Prospect of.
Monro, Sir T.
Mosaic Miracles.
----Prophecies.
Motives and Impulses.
Music.
----, Ear and Taste for, different.
Musical Glasses, some Men like.
N.
Napier.
National Colonial Character and Naval Discipline.
----Debt.
Nations, Characteristic Temperament of.
Negro Emancipation.
Nervous Weakness.
New Testament Canon.
Newton.
Nitrous Oxide.
Nominalists and Realists.
Northern and Southern States.
Norwegians.
O.
Oath, Coronation.
Oaths.
Obstruction.
Origen.
Othello, Character of.
P.
Painting.
Pantheism.
----and Idolatry.
Papacy.
----, the, and the Reformation.
----and the Schoolmen.
Paradise Lost.
Park, Professor.
Parliamentary Privilege.
Party Spirit.
Penal Code in Ireland.
Penn, Granville, and the Deluge.
Pentameter, Greek and Latin.
Permanency and Progression of Nations.
Persius.
Persons and Things.
Peter Simple, and Tom Cringle's Log.
Phantom Portrait.
Philanthropists.
Philosopher's ordinary Language.
Philosophy, Greek.
----, Moral.
----, Mr. Coleridge's System of.
----of young Men of the present Day.
Pictures.
Pilgrim's Progress.
Pirates.
Plants.
Plato.
----and Xenophon.
Plotinus.
Poem, Epic.
Poetic Promise.
Poetical Filter.
Poetry.
----, Persian and Arabic.
Poison.
Polarity, Moral Law of.
Political Action, the two Modes of.
Political Economy, Modern.
Polonius.
Poor Laws.
Popedom.
Prayer.
Preaching extempore.
Presbyterians, Independents, and Bishops.
Principle, Greatest Happiness.
Principles and Facts.
----and Maxims.
Professions and Trades.
Propertius.
Property Tax.
Prophecies of the Old Testament.
Prophecy.
Prose and Poetry.
----and Verse.
Prudentius.
Psalms, Translation of the.
Puritans and Cavaliers.
----and Jacobins.
Q.
Quacks.
Quakerism, Modern.
Quakers.
Quarantine.
R.
Rabelais.
----and Luther.
Raffles, Sir S.
Rainbow.
Reason and Understanding.
Reasoner, a.
Redemption.
Reform of the House of Commons.
----Bill.
----, Conduct of Ministers on the.
Reformation.
----, English.
Religion.
Religion gentilizes.
----of the Greeks.
-----, Roman Catholic.
-----, Romish
Representation, Popular.
----, Direct.
Restoration.
Review, Principles of a.
Revolution.
----, Belgian.
----, French.
----, Intellectual.
Rhenferd.
Roman Conquest.
----Empire. Key to the Decline of the.
----Mind.
----Catholics.
----Catholic Emancipation.
Rosetti on Dante.
S.
Sallust.
Sandford, Bishop.
Sanskrit.
Sarpi, Paul.
Scanderbeg.
Scarlett, Sir J.
Schemes, Spinozistic and Hebrew.
Schiller.
----'s Robbers.
----'s Versification.
Schmidt.
Schools, Infant.
----, Public.
Scotch and English.
----Kirk and Irving.
----Novels.
Scott, Michael.
----and Coleridge.
----'s Novels.
Sectarianism.
Seneca.
Shakspeare.
----, _in Minimis_.
----'s Intellectual Action.
----'s Sonnets.
Sicily.
Sidney, Sir P.
Sin and Sins.
Smith, Robert.
Society, best State of.
Socinianism.
Socrates.
Solomon.
Sophocles.
Southey.
----'s Life of Bunyan.
Speech, Parts of.
Spenser.
Spinosa.
Spurzheim.
Spurzheim and Craniology.
St. John.
----'s Gospel.
----, Chap. xix. Ver. 11.
----, Chap. iii. Ver. 4.
St. Paul's Melita.
State.
----, a.
----, Idea of a.
Statesmen.
Statius.
Steinmetz.
Stella.
Sterne.
Style.
----, Algernon Sydney's.
----, Modern.
Sublime and Nonsense.
Sublimity.
Suffiction.
Superstition of Maltese, Sicilians, and Italians.
