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Updated: May 14, 2025
And what De Quincey has to say of the lectures themselves when they did by chance get delivered is no less melancholy. "The lecturer's appearance," he says, "was generally that of a man struggling with pain and over-mastering illness." But that never happened: most unfortunately, he relied on his extempore ability to carry him through.
In the gift of speech, they have always had the advantage of us; and though the jealousy of the other sex have deprived us of the orations of Xantippe, yet even Demosthenes does not seem to have produced greater effects, if we may take the word of Socrates for it, as I, for one, very gladly do. No, what I complain of is not the lecturer's opinions, but the eloquence with which he expressed them.
The lecturer's explanation had conveyed to Susan's mind the idea of the Switzers going with long strings of carts to the top of Mont Blanc for supplies of ice to meet the European demand, and she admitted that it was a grand idea, and asked if the ice and snow lasted long into the summer. "Long into it!" exclaimed her teacher. "Why, you foolish thing, its lasts all through it."
He detected a serious flaw in the lecturer's argument. 'You say the people in one and two gets all the best of everything, but what about the tramps and beggars? You've got them in division one. 'Yes, I know. You see, that's the proper place for them. They belong to a Loafer class.
But, as the absent are always wrong in comparison with the present, so youth is always wrong in comparison with age. The youngest Egyptologist being in truth a somewhat bumptious man, fresh from Oxford by way of Cairo and Alexandria had presumed to make a little feint of sword-play with one of the lecturer's diffident remarks.
And in general, indeed, the Conciones ad Populum, as Coleridge named these lectures on their subsequent publication, were rather calculated to bewilder any of the youthful lecturer's well- wishers who might be anxious for some means of discriminating his attitude from that of the Hardys, the Horne Tookes, and the Thelwalls of the day.
Even men belonging to the watch ashore were present, some of them bringing friends from other ships with them. The audience, suspicious at first, eventually became strangely enthusiastic, loud cheering, much stamping on the deck, and even shrieks and cat-calls completely drowning the lecturer's voice for moments at a time.
The practice I have adopted of late years, in lecturing to students, is to condense the substance of the hour's discourse into a few dry propositions, which are read slowly and taken down from dictation; the reading of each being followed by a free commentary, expanding and illustrating the proposition, explaining terms, and removing any difficulties that may be attackable in that way, by diagrams made roughly, and seen to grow under the lecturer's hand.
"There is a stronger will than mine acting against me. You must excuse me for to-night." The man was evidently ill, and utterly unable to proceed, so the curtain was lowered, and the audience dispersed, with many comments upon the lecturer's sudden indisposition. I waited outside the hall until my friend and the ladies came out. Cowles was laughing over his recent experience.
An article in our April number complained that the tendency of his view of Anne's times was to a social laxity, which might be very exhilarating but was very dangerous; that the lecturer's warm commendation of fermented drinks, taken at a very early hour of the morning in tavern-rooms and club houses, was as deleterious to the moral health of enthusiastic young readers disposed to the literary life as the beverage itself to their physical health.
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