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Grey glanced from Durer's "Melancholy" to the canvas on the easel; then his fascinated eyes dwelt on the dainty features of the artist, and he thought involuntarily of another Coleridgean image, of the "pilgrim in whom the spring and the autumn, and the melancholy of both, seemed to have combined." "Mrs.
At length deciding for the milder alternative, he had thrown in some completing touches here and there, especially, as I conjecture, a proportion of Coleridgean moonshine at the end; and so sent it forth.
When he came home he, it is said under Coleridgean influence, took orders, but soon developed heterodox views and gave up active duty. He lived, though under sentence of death by consumption, till 1843, spending much time abroad, but writing a little, chiefly for periodicals.
Underneath this growth and diversity of opinion we see George Eliot's oneness of character, just, for that matter, as we see it in Mill's long and grave march from the uncompromising denials instilled into him by his father, then through Wordsworthian mysticism and Coleridgean conservatism, down to the pale belief and dim starlight faith of his posthumous volume.
How long they are likely to endure, it would be rash to predict among a nation whose established teachers and official preachers are prevented by an inveterate timidity from trusting themselves to that disciplined intelligence, in which the superior minds of the last century had such courageous faith. Mr. Carlyle drank in some sort at the same fountain. Coleridgean ideas were in the air.
Now it is the equivalenced octosyllable of the Coleridgean stamp rather than of Scott's or Byron's; now trochaic decasyllabics of a rather rococo kind; and once at least a splendid anapæstic couplet, which catches the ear and clings to the memory for a lifetime "What voices are these on the clear night air? What lights in the court? What steps on the stair?"
There is a peculiarly Coleridgean touch in that last hint of uniting Milton and the market-gardener. In fact, I doubt whether the garden ever paid expenses; but, on the other hand, the crop of poetry that sprung from Coleridge's marvellous mind was rich and splendid.
Vehement native force was too strong for such a man to remain in the luminous haze which made the Coleridgean atmosphere. A well-known chapter in the Life of Sterling, which some, indeed, have found too ungracious, shows how little hold he felt Coleridge's ideas to be capable of retaining, and how little permanent satisfaction resided in them.
Nor, with all the Coleridge fermentation, was democratic Radicalism by any means given up; though how it was to live if the Coleridgean moonshine took effect, might have been an abtruse question.
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