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He was a slender, middle-aged man, of an amiable deportment and irreproachable conversation; but I must say, that his sermons were but ill calculated to benefit the crew. He had drank at the mystic fountain of Plato; his head had been turned by the Germans; and this I will say, that White-Jacket himself saw him with Coleridge's Biographia Literaria in his hand.
The tree was cut down, but its roots remained, and it is springing up again. The tyrant was removed, but the tyranny is with us still. Let us therefore return to the "Tusculan Disputations" which you often quote, with their reasons why death is not to be feared. Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born at Ottery St. Mary, in the county of Devon, on October 21, 1772.
Christabel, with Kubla Khan, appeared in 1816, and the Biographia Literaria next year; Zapolya and the rewritten Friend the year after, when also Coleridge gave a new course of lectures, and yet another, the last. Aids to Reflection, in 1825, was the latest important work he issued himself, though in 1828 he superintended a collection of his poems.
One says, of the beginning of one of his Unitarian sermons: "His voice rose like a stream of rich, distilled perfumes;" another, "He talks like an angel, and does nothing!" The Aids to Reflection, The Friend, The Biographia Literaria: those books came from one whose vocation was in the world of the imagination, the theory and practice of poetry.
Strype, and the notes to the Life of Drake, in the Biographia Britannica. Few periods in French history are of greater interest and importance than that of which Sully treats in the following pages.
To the Wordsworthian, anxious for a full justification of the faith that is in him, the whole body of Coleridge's criticism on his friend's poetry in the Biographia Literaria may be confidently recommended.
Johnson, at an early period of his life, which will appear in my edition of his poems. BOSWELL. See ante, i. 16, note 1. The editor of the Biographia Britannica. Ante, iii. 174. On Dec. 23, Miss Adams wrote to a friend: 'We are all under the sincerest grief for the loss of poor Dr. Johnson.
To many there would appear to be an equal degree of verdant simplicity in mentioning among the specialties and distinguishing features of a collection the Biographia and Encyclopædia Britannica, Lowndes's Manual, the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews, Boyle, Ducange, Moreri, Dodsley's Annual Register, Watt's Bibliotheca, and Diodorus Siculus.
The publication of the Lyrical Ballads in the spring of the year 1798 was, indeed, an event of double significance for English poetry. It marked an epoch in the creative life of Coleridge, and a no less important one in the critical life of Wordsworth. In the Biographia Literaria the origination of the plan of the work is thus described: "During the first year that Mr.
Mysticism and Pantheism link hands over the gulf which seemed to divide them." "Miss Benton, is this view of the subject a novel one?" said he, looking at her very intently. "No; a singular passage in the 'Biographia Literaria' suggested it to me long ago. But unwelcome hints are rarely accepted, you know." "Why unwelcome in this case?" She looked at him, but made no reply, and none was needed.
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