Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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[101] Mr. Poole, who requested it as a favour, came all the way from
Stowey to peruse my MS. "Recollections of Coleridge," and who I have good
reason to believe, without any unkind intention, communicated a report to
_C.'s relations._
[102] Mr. Southey's grandfather lived in the old manor-house at
Bedminster, where, in his younger days. Mr. S. passed many of his
happiest hours. When spending a week with me at Bedminster, with a year
of the date of this letter, he went to the old house, and requested
permission of the strangers who inhabited his grandfather's mansion, to
walk round the garden, and renew his acquaintance with the old trees
which he used to climb nearly six years before; a request which was
readily granted. The revival of such interesting associations, had they
occurred at a former period, would doubtless have produced some exquisite
poetical record.
[103] The illness of Mrs. Edith Southey.
[104] Mr. S. deemed it an admirable likeness of Mr. W. as he appeared in
younger life; and said that it bore at the present time, a striking
resemblance to Mr. W.'s son.
[105] The eminent Edinburgh Professor. For three years the private tutor
of Mr. T. Wedgewood.
[106] Westbury, near Bristol, the then residence of Mr. John Wedgewood,
Esq.
[107] The then residence of Mr. Wordsworth.
[108] List of Works and Poems which Mr. Coleridge _intended_ to write,
with the pages in which they are noticed.
[Transcriber's note: After the page number the starting words of the
matching paragraph are given.]
Poem on the Nativity (800 lines), p. 66 ["He speaks in the same
letter"]
Plan of General Study, p. 66 ["In a letter of Mr. C. dated"]
Pantisocracy, 4to., p. 73 ["Before I enter on an important"]
17 other works, p. 73 [See previous.]
Translations of Modern Latin Poets 2 vols. 8vo., p. 73 [See
previous.]
8 Sonnets, p. 81 ["With regard to the Poems I mean to"]
A book on Morals, in answer to Godwin, p. 102 ["Wordsworth's
conversation aroused me"]
Oberon of Wieland (Trans.), p. 160 ["P. S. I am translating the"]
Ballad. 340 lines, p. 173 ["I have finished my Ballad, it is"]
3 Works, promised, p. 292 ["Coleridge has left London for
Keswick"]
New Review, p. 306 ["The preceding letter of Mr. Coleridge led"]
Lectures on Female Education, p. 357 ["Even so the two far, far
more"]
Odes on the different sentences of the Lord's Prayer, p. 387
["You will wish to know something of myself"]
Treatise on the Corn Laws, p. 390 ["Indeed from the manner in
which it"]
Hist. of German Belles Lettres, p. 427 ["What have I done in
Germany"]
Life of Lessing, p. 427 [See previous.]
Introduction to Lessing's Life, p. 437 ["Have you seen my
translation"]
Progressiveness of all Nature, p. 430 ["Now I make up my mind to
a sort"]
Principles of Population, p. 431 ["I shall remain in London till
April"]
Finishing of Christabel, p. 438 ["There happen frequently little
odd"]
Letters and condition of German Boors, p. 442 [See previous.]
A Comedy, p. 442 ["My littlest one is a very stout boy"]
Essay on writing in Newspapers, p. 445 ["I cannot write that
without"]
Essay on Style in Prose and Verse, p. 446 ["Very soon however I
shall present"]
Essay on Hall, Milton, and Taylor, p. 446 [See previous.]
Essay on Johnson and Gibbon, p. 446 [See previous.]
Book on the subject of Poetry, p. 446 [See previous.]
Heroic Poem on the Siege of Jerusalem, p. 447 ["I have, since my
twentieth year"]
[109] An intention not fulfilled.
[110] Mr. Thomas Wedgewood visited the continent in 1803, with Mr.
Underwood as his travelling companion. He purposed to have proceeded to
the continent in 1804; but his disorders increasing, he retired to his
seat, near Blandford, and died July 10, 1805, aged 34. Mr. Coleridge, in
vain, recommended a continental journey.
Josiah Wedgewood, Esq., died July 13, 1843, aged 74.
[111] Mr. Coleridge, when at the University of Gottingen, found pleasant
English society. With several gentlemen (students) whom he there met,
(Dr. Parry, the present eminent physician of Bath; Dr. Carlyon, the no
less eminent physician of Truro; Captain Parry, the North Pole Navigator;
and Mr. Chester.) They together made an excursion to the Hartz mountains.
Many striking incidents respecting this pedestrian excursion are before
the public, in Mr. C.'s own letters; and it may here be added, Dr.
Carlyon has published a work, entitled "Early Years and Late
Reflections," which gives among other valuable matter, many additional
particulars connected with this visit to the Brockhen, as well as
interesting notices concerning Mr. Coleridge, during his residence in
Germany. Dr. C. has more recently published a second volume, with able
dissertations, chiefly on Medical Science.
[112] Trevecka, a college established by Lady Huntingdon.
[113] After JOHN HENDERSON'S acquaintance and friendship had been matured
with Dean Tucker, he informed a particular friend, the Rev. James Newton,
"that whenever he was in the company of young Henderson, he considered
himself as a Scholar in the presence of his Tutor." The late Robert Hall
also well knew John Henderson, and in the latter part of his life,
referring to him, told me, that he considered John Henderson to have been
a Prodigy, and that, when in his company, he always considered himself as
a pupil.
[114] A German at Oxford was once much frightened by coming into the room
while JOHN HENDERSON was exercising his mimicry, for, as he protested, he
thought he heard himself talking at a distance. No person needed to have
gone out of HENDERSON'S company to have heard and almost seen Dr.
Johnson. During one of the Doctor's annual visits to Oxford, HENDERSON
and he one evening, for several hours, amused those around them, by
conversing expressly in hard words. It was generally admitted that JOHN
HENDERSON discovered the greater talent at this verbal forgery. And to
meet the Doctor on his own ground, was indeed a presumptuous thing. Their
conversations, in Latin, (often extending through a whole evening,) were
deemed splendid, as they were classically chaste. Dr. Adams, it was said,
was the only man in Oxford who approximated toward an equality with JOHN
HENDERSON in Latin colloquisms.
[115] His rooms, at Pembroke College, were those which had been occupied
by _Dr Johnson_.
[116] As a proof of his self-command, the following incident may be
adduced. During his residence at Oxford, a student of a neighbouring
college, proud of his logical acquirements, was solicitous of a private
disputation with the renowned Henderson; some mutual friends introduced
him, and having chosen his subject, they conversed for some time with
equal candour and moderation; but at length Henderson's antagonist,
perceiving his confutation inevitable, in the height of passion, threw a
full glass of wine in John Henderson's face. J. H. without altering his
features or changing his position, gently wiped his face, and then coolly
replied, "This, sir, is a digression; now for the argument." It is hardly
necessary to add, the insult was resented by the company turning the
aggressor out of the room.
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