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To the expediency of this measure Cottle fully assented, but could not help adding that he always thought that the qualities of his brother's heart exceeded those of his head. I believe his brother, when living, had formed precisely the same idea of him; and I apprehend the world will assent to both judgments. I rather guess that the brothers were poetical rivals.
If you delay the press it will give me the opportunity I so much wish, of sending my "Visions of the Maid of Arc" to Wordsworth, who lives not above twenty miles from this place; and to Charles Lamb, whose taste and judgment, I see reason to think more correct and philosophical than my own, which yet I place pretty high...." In a succeeding letter Mr. Coleridge says, "My dear Cottle,
Coleridge, Mr. S. renewed his solicitation, as will appear by the following extracts. "Keswick, April 14, 1836. My dear Cottle, There is I hope, time enough for you to make a very interesting book of your own 'Recollections, a book which will be of no little value to the history of our native city, and the literature of our times. Your prose has a natural ease which no study could acquire.
"My dear Cottle, ... On Thursday morning, by Milton, the Stowey carrier, I shall send you a parcel, containing the book of my Poems interleaved, with the alterations, and likewise the prefaces, which I shall send to you, for your criticisms...."
Coleridge, I now heard nothing, but, in common with all his friends, felt deep solicitude concerning his future course; when, in March, 1815, I received from him the following letter: "Calne, March 7, 1815. Dear Cottle, You will wish to know something of myself.
Here is a great deal about myself, and nothing about those whom I have seen in London, and of whom we have all heard in the country. I will make a report upon them in my next letter. God bless you. Yours sincerely, Robert Southey." Letter from Robert Southey, to Amos Cottle, Magdalen College, Cambridge. "London, Feb. 28, 1797. 20, Prospect Place, Newington Butts.
But Miss Thornton, delicately approached, had proved so ungracious and so uncommunicative, that Miss Murray had retired into herself, and attacked her work with unusual briskness. Next to friendly, insignificant little Miss Murray was Miss Cottle, a large, dark, morose girl, with untidy hair, and untidy clothes, and a bad complexion.
They make part of the poetical creed. Fare you well. Sincerely yours, To Joseph Cottle. Robert Southey." "London, March 6, 1797. ... I am inclined to complain heavily of you, Cottle. Here am I committing grand larceny on my time, in writing to you; and you, who might sit at your fire, and write me huge letters, have not found time to fill even half a sheet.
For instance, I earnestly wish to begin the volumes with what has never been seen by any, however few, such as a series of odes on the different sentences of the Lord's Prayer, and, more than all this, to finish my greater work on 'Christianity considered as philosophy, and as the only philosophy." Then follows a request for a loan of forty pounds on the security of the MSS., an advance which Cottle declined to make, though he sent Coleridge "some smaller temporary relief."
The volume of poems, that, in the presence of so many more important affairs, had retired into shade, was now about to reappear, as will be found by the following letter. "Stowey, My dear Cottle,
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