large portion of Europe, and afforded pretext. to a host of infidels (who took the field with daring confidence) for confounding pure religion with the corruptions of Papal Rome. Thus, the throne and the altar were placed in jeopardy everywhere; men's minds became bewildered; and all the ties of civilized society, private and public, appeared to be giving way. This was indeed a time for the good to fear, for the bad to hope, and for visionaries of every description, and with every variety of motive, to project schemes of chimerical amelioration. It behoves us, therefore, in our retrospect of the conspicuous characters of this period, to take into account the temptations with which they were beset, and the false lights by which they were allured into new and untried paths. Nevertheless, justice requires that even this forbearance should have a limit; and with respect to any little severity shown towards Coleridge, in one or two instances, I must beg to avail myself of his own motto, "Not to allow zeal for our friends to transcend the obligations of conscience." That I have not attached exaggerated importance to the public interest associated with him, or with Sir H. Davy, I am fortified in believing, by the opinion of two judicious friends, to whom I feel greatly obliged, for their attentively perusing my manuscript, and for the remarks with which they favoured me. And whilst I refrain from mentioning their names, to avoid all appearance of wishing to shrink from my own exclusive responsibility, I have thought it due to one of them to annex a mark to the interesting notes with which his observations were accompanied. CONTENTS. 357 College recollections of the Rector of St. Mawgan, of 9-11 India, the scene of Bishop Middleton's great achievements 331 Display of ill manners at the Theatre........ Page ..... 18 More serious occurrence of a similar kind, at the Opera Dresden particularly attractive at this time to the English 20 Mr. and Mrs. Greatheed....................... Supper at the British Minister's Königstein Pilnitz First interview with Coleridge at Göttingen .... ............... 21 23 24 22286 The Master of Jesus College attempts in vain to reclaim Coleridge Pantisocracy Coleridge a private Soldier Pedestrian Tour to the Harz with Coleridge and others Happiness-what its essential quality? Electorate of Mentz ...................... The Brocken Spectre, and various superstitions...... 43 et seq. Coleridge fond of a Pun 45 Jordan's account of the Brocken Spectre 47 Mr. Hawe's account from Sir D. Brewster's "Letters on "Lines on the Brocken," written by Coleridge at 56 ...... ......... Ditto, in the Album on the summit of the Brocken 64 66 67 Extract from "Travels of G. D. F. Scheller in Lapland 56 Lines written by Coleridge in the Album of a Göttingen Page 68 68 69 70 71-81 82 ...... Quotation from Preface to Cantos 6, 7, and 8, of Don Atheism-poetically pourtrayed by Coleridge Note relative to Lord Byron Nostalgia-its influence on Coleridge Nightingales abound at Göttingen Quotation from Coleridge relative to them......... Coleridge is anxious to make his fellow-tourists Meta 84 86 87 88 89 90 90 91 92 92 His conversation relative to the old English Divines 93 et seq. Jeremy Taylor and Washington Irving, parallel passage in their writings Lessing Translation of his Fable of Jupiter and the English at Göttingen no church-goers 96,97 98 100 100 101 et seq. Interesting Letter from Dr. Parry, in which this circumstance is alluded to Coleridge at Keswick, with further remarks on the ob Extract from the Rev. John Rose's "Hulsean Lectures" 104 "Society of Friends" deny the Divine appointment of |