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I behaved shabbily about some slight remarks which I was to have ventured on Mr. Southey's 'Madoc, in the 'Eclectic Review. On reading the critiques in the 'Edinburgh Review, on 'Thalaba' and 'Madoc, I found what were substantially my own impressions, so much better developed than I could have done, that I instantly threw my remarks away.
Still, the following expression of a young lady convert of Wesley's offers a fair parallel to the specimen given above. It is taken from Southey's Life of Wesley: "Oh, mighty, powerful, happy change! The love of God was shed abroad in my heart, and a flame kindled there with pains so violent, and yet so very ravishing, that my body was almost torn asunder. I sweated, I trembled, I fainted, I sang.
Southey's juvenile drama of "Wat Tyler," was surreptitiously published; written during the few months of his political excitement, when the specious pretensions of the French, carried away, for a brief period, so many young and ardent minds. He thus noticed the circumstance. "My dear Cottle,
But he showed us about the grounds, and allowed us to peep into the windows of what had been Southey's library, and into those of another of the front apartments, and showed us the window of the chamber in the rear, in which Southey died. The apartments into which we peeped looked rather small and low, not particularly so, but enough to indicate an old building.
Scott and Southey were valued friends, but he thought little of Scott's poetry, and less of Southey's. Byron and Shelley he seems scarcely to have read; and he failed altogether to appreciate Keats.
What an emblem of human instability! The idea of Robert Southey's altered state can hardly force itself on my imagination.
"Of course, I know the date of the battle of Trafalgar, Dad," I answered glibly enough, having heard it mentioned too often to have forgotten it in a hurry; and, besides, I knew Southey's Life of Nelson almost by heart, it being one of my favourite books and ranking in my estimation next to Robinson Crusoe. "It was fought, Dad, on the 21st October 1805."
Thrale's daughters 'never to think that she had arithmetic enough. Ante, p. 171, note 3. See ante, iii. 207, note 3. Cowper wrote on May 10 to the Rev. John Newton: 'We rejoice in the account you give us of Dr. Johnson. His conversion will indeed be a singular proof of the omnipotence of Grace; and the more singular, the more decided. Southey's Cowper, xv. 150.
Southey's error lies deeper still. "All wealth," says he, "was tangible and real till paper currency was introduced." Now, was there ever, since men emerged from a state of utter barbarism, an age in which there were no debts? Is not a debt, while the solvency of the debtor is undoubted, always reckoned as part of the wealth of the creditor? Yet is it tangible and real wealth?
The great Revolution which swept so many shams away with its terrible breath, venerated, to its honour be it said, both the spirit of humanity displayed by the poet-philosopher and the spirit of patriotism that possessed the virgin heroine and martyr. In 1795 appeared Southey's heroic play on Joan of Arc.
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