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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II - -Author: Thomas De Quincey - -Editor: David Maddon - -Release Date: June 10, 2013 [EBook #42909] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WRITING OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY *** - - - - -Produced by Les Galloway, Jason Isbell and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42909 ***</div> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i"></a></span></p> @@ -668,7 +629,7 @@ it will be an acceptable service, at this particular moment Universities is under the unfriendly revision of Parliament, when some roving commission may be annually looked for, under a contingency which I will not utter in words (for I -reverence the doctrine of <i>ευφημισμος (euphêmismos)</i>), far worse than Cromwellian, +reverence the doctrine of <i>ευφημισμος (euphêmismos)</i>), far worse than Cromwellian, that is, merely personal, and to winnow the existing corporation from disaffection to the state—a Henry the Eighth commission of sequestration, and levelled at the very @@ -710,7 +671,7 @@ presume, for within one hour I was summoned to her presence. Among other questions, she put this to me, which is importantly connected with my future experience at Oxford, and my coming account of it:—"Your guardians," she prefaced, -"still continue to me your school allowance of £100. +"still continue to me your school allowance of £100. To this, for the present, when your sisters cost me such heavy deductions from my own income, I cannot undertake to make any addition—that is, you are not to count upon @@ -719,7 +680,7 @@ Oxford vacations, and as much time besides as the rules of your college will dispense with your attendance, at my house, wherever that may be. On this understanding, are you willing to undertake an Oxford life, upon so small an allowance -as £100 per annum?" My answer was by a cheerful +as £100 per annum?" My answer was by a cheerful and prompt assent. For I felt satisfied, and said as much to my mother, that, although this might sound, and might really prove, on a common system of expenditure, ludicrously @@ -742,7 +703,7 @@ and painful; but not more so, I affirm, in Oxford than anywhere else. Mere defect of power, <i>as</i> such, and where circumstances force it into violent relief, cannot well be other than a degrading feature in any man's position. Now, in -other cities, the man of £100 a-year never can be forced +other cities, the man of £100 a-year never can be forced into such an invidious insulation—he finds many to keep him in countenance; but in Oxford he is a sort of monster—he stands alone in the only class with which he can be @@ -859,7 +820,7 @@ the Continent.</p> <p>What is a University almost everywhere else? It announces little more, as respects the academic buildings, than that here is to be found the place of rendezvous—the -exchange, as it were, or, under a different figure, the <i>palæstra</i> +exchange, as it were, or, under a different figure, the <i>palæstra</i> of the various parties connected with the prosecution of liberal studies. This is their "House of Call," their general place of muster and parade. Here it is that the professors @@ -955,8 +916,8 @@ great functions and qualifications of a collegiate incorporation: one providing to each separate generation its own separate rights of heirship to all the knowledge accumulated by its predecessors, and converting a mere casual life-annuity -into an estate of inheritance—a mere fleeting αγωνισμα (agônisma) -into a κτημα ες αει (ktêma es aei); the other securing for this eternal +into an estate of inheritance—a mere fleeting αγωνισμα (agônisma) +into a κτημα ες αει (ktêma es aei); the other securing for this eternal dowry as wide a distribution as possible: the one function regarding the dimension of <i>length</i> in the endless series of ages through which it propagates its gifts; the other regarding @@ -1373,7 +1334,7 @@ generally felt as conferring a degree of rank not much less than episcopal; and, in fact, the head of Brasenose at that time, who happened to be the Bishop of Bangor, was not held to rank much above his brothers in office. Such being the -rank of heads generally, <i>à fortiori</i>, that of Christ Church was +rank of heads generally, <i>à fortiori</i>, that of Christ Church was to be had in reverence; and this I knew. He is always, <i>ex officio</i>, dean of the diocese; and, in his quality of college head, he only, of all deans that ever were heard of, is uniformly @@ -1717,7 +1678,7 @@ practise any severe punctuality,—that perhaps some thoughtless young man might give him less, or might even forget to give anything; and, at all events, I have reason to believe that half that sum would have contented him. These -minutiæ I record purposely; my immediate object being to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> +minutiæ I record purposely; my immediate object being to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> give a rigorous statement of the real expenses incident to an English university education, partly as a guide to the calculations of parents, and partly as an answer to the somewhat @@ -1738,7 +1699,7 @@ it prove to you, mighty incorporations, what, sometimes, it is to us, poor, frail <i>homunculi</i>—a process of purification, a solemn and oracular warning! And, when that cloud is overpast, then, rise, ancient powers, wiser and better—ready, -like the λαμπαδηφοροι (lampadêphoroi) of old, to enter upon a second <i>stadium</i>, +like the λαμπαδηφοροι (lampadêphoroi) of old, to enter upon a second <i>stadium</i>, and to transmit the sacred torch through a second period of twice<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> five hundred years. So prays a loyal <i>alumnus</i>, whose presumption, if any be, in taking upon himself a monitory @@ -1861,7 +1822,7 @@ ball or concert-room. Our great territorial nobility, though sometimes forming exclusive circles (but not, however, upon any principle of high birth), do so daily. They mix as equal partakers in the same amusements of races, balls, musical -assemblies, with the baronets (or <i>élite</i> of the gentry); with +assemblies, with the baronets (or <i>élite</i> of the gentry); with the landed esquires (or middle gentry); with the superior order of tradesmen (who, in Germany, are absolute ciphers, for political weight, or social consideration, but, with us, constitute @@ -2279,7 +2240,7 @@ basis. The account will then stand thus:</p> <tr> <td class="tdr">1.</td> <td class="tdl">Rooms</td> - <td class="tdr">£10</td> + <td class="tdr">£10</td> <td class="tdr">10</td> <td class="tdr">0</td> </tr> @@ -2329,7 +2290,7 @@ basis. The account will then stand thus:</p> <tr> <td class="tdr"> </td> <td class="tdl"> </td> - <td class="tdr">£66</td> + <td class="tdr">£66</td> <td class="tdr">9</td> <td class="tdr">0</td> </tr> @@ -2384,7 +2345,7 @@ in addition to the college bills, will stand thus:</p> </tr> <tr> <td class="tdl">Washing for thirty weeks, at the privileged rate </td> - <td class="tdr">£6</td> + <td class="tdr">£6</td> <td class="tdr">6</td> <td class="tdr">0</td> </tr> @@ -2414,15 +2375,15 @@ in addition to the college bills, will stand thus:</p> </tr> <tr> <td class="tdl"> </td> - <td class="tdr">£24</td> + <td class="tdr">£24</td> <td class="tdr">6</td> <td class="tdr">0</td> </tr> </table> -<p>The college bills, therefore, will be £66: 9s.; the extras, -not furnished by the college, will be about £24: 6s.,—making -a total amount of £90: 15s. And for this sum, annually, a +<p>The college bills, therefore, will be £66: 9s.; the extras, +not furnished by the college, will be about £24: 6s.,—making +a total amount of £90: 15s. And for this sum, annually, a man may defray <i>every</i> expense incident to an Oxford life, through a period of weeks (viz., thirty) something more than he will be permitted to reside. It is true, that, for the @@ -2687,7 +2648,7 @@ of the case. My chief guardian, for instance, though obstinate to a degree which risked the happiness and the life of his ward, was an upright man otherwise; and his children are entitled to value his memory. Again, my Greek-street -τραπεζιτης (trapezitês), the "<i>fœnerator Alpheus</i>," who delighted to reap +τραπεζιτης (trapezitês), the "<i>fœnerator Alpheus</i>," who delighted to reap where he had not sown, and too often (I fear) allowed himself in practices which not impossibly have long since been found to qualify him for distant climates and "Botanic" @@ -2881,7 +2842,7 @@ doing in chorus about 1832.</p> with my own; yet, in that large world, we never met. I know, therefore, but little of his policy in regard to such opinions or feelings as tended to dissociate him from the mass -of his coëvals. This only I know, that he lived as it were in +of his coëvals. This only I know, that he lived as it were in public, and must, therefore, I presume, have practised a studied reserve as to his deepest admirations; and, perhaps, at that day (1803-8) the occasions would be rare in which @@ -2916,7 +2877,7 @@ dislike. On the contrary, in order that I <i>might</i> like all men, I wished to associate with none. Now, then, to have mentioned the <i>Parmenides</i> to one who, fifty thousand to one, was a perfect stranger to its whole drift and purpose, looked too -<i>méchant</i>, too like a trick of malice, in an age when such reading +<i>méchant</i>, too like a trick of malice, in an age when such reading was so very unusual. I felt that it would be taken for an express stratagem for stopping my tutor's mouth. All this passing rapidly through my mind, I replied, without @@ -3127,7 +3088,7 @@ indicating the mere fashion or external manner of an object as opposed to its substance. This is effected by the word <i>modal</i> or <i>mōdern</i>, as the adjective from <i>modus</i>, a fashion or manner; and in that sense Shakspeare employs the word. Thus, -Cleopatra, undervaluing to Cæsar's agent the bijouterie which +Cleopatra, undervaluing to Cæsar's agent the bijouterie which she has kept back from inventory, and which her treacherous steward had betrayed, describes them as mere trifles—</p> @@ -3323,7 +3284,7 @@ asked, that the Christian idea of <i>sin</i> is an idea utterly unknown to the Pagan mind? The Greeks and Romans had a clear conception of a moral ideal, as we have; but this they estimated by a reference to the will; and they called it -virtue, and the antithesis they called vice. The <i>lacheté</i> or +virtue, and the antithesis they called vice. The <i>lacheté</i> or relaxed energy of the will, by which it yielded to the seductions of sensual pleasure, that was vice; and the braced-up tone by which it resisted these seductions was virtue. But @@ -3391,7 +3352,7 @@ Beyond this, neither the German nor the French disputers on the subject have talked to any profitable purpose.</p> <p>I have mentioned Paley as accidentally connected with -my <i>début</i> in literary conversation; and I have taken occasion<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> +my <i>début</i> in literary conversation; and I have taken occasion<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> to say how much I admired his style and its unstudied graces, how profoundly I despised his philosophy. I shall here say a word or two more on that subject. As respects @@ -3457,7 +3418,7 @@ same kind will give an impetus to the descent of this falling philosophy. With respect to Paley, and the naked <i>prudentialism</i> of his system, it is true that in a longish note Paley disclaims that consequence. But to this we may reply, with -Cicero, <i>Non quæro quid neget Epicurus, sed quid congruenter +Cicero, <i>Non quæro quid neget Epicurus, sed quid congruenter neget</i>. Meantime, waiving all this as too notorious, and too frequently denounced, I wish to recur to this trite subject, by way of stating an objection made to the Paleyan morality @@ -3554,7 +3515,7 @@ honours in taking his degree. He did attend the first examination for B.A. honours at Michaelmas in the year 1808, with the result that Dr. Goodenough of Christ Church, who was one of the examiners, is said to have told one of the Worcester College dons, "You have sent us to-day -the cleverest man I ever met with; if his <i>vivâ voce</i> examination to-morrow +the cleverest man I ever met with; if his <i>vivâ voce</i> examination to-morrow correspond with what he has done in writing, he will carry everything before him." De Quincey's own account to Mr. Woodhouse was that the examination was an oral one and in Latin; which agrees @@ -3633,12 +3594,12 @@ tediousness upon our respectable fathers some thirty or forty years ago—he had more than once turned to so valuable an account the doziness or the dulness of his fellow-travellers, that, whereas he had "booked" himself at the coach-office -utterly αναλφαβητος (analphabêtos), unacquainted with the first rudiments +utterly αναλφαβητος (analphabêtos), unacquainted with the first rudiments of the given language, he had made his parting bows to his coach brethren (secretly returning thanks to them for their stupidity) in a condition for grappling with any common book in that dialect. One of the polyglot Old or New -Testaments published by Bagster would be a perfect Encyclopædia, +Testaments published by Bagster would be a perfect Encyclopædia, or <i>Panorganon</i>, for such a scheme of coach discipline, upon dull roads and in dull company. As respects the German language in particular, I shall give one caution @@ -3662,7 +3623,7 @@ is a known, fixed, calculable limit. Infinity, absolute infinity, is impracticable in any German metre. Not so with German prose. Style, in any sense, is an inconceivable idea to a German intellect. Take the word in the limited sense -of what the Greeks called Συνθεσις ονοματων (Synthesis onomatôn)—<i>i.e.</i>, the construction +of what the Greeks called Συνθεσις ονοματων (Synthesis onomatôn)—<i>i.e.</i>, the construction of sentences—I affirm that a German (unless it were here and there a Lessing) cannot admit such an idea. Books there are in German, and, in other respects, very good @@ -4294,7 +4255,7 @@ elementary work, the <i>Critik der reinen Vernunft</i>; and they are of a nature to make any man melancholy. Indeed, let a man consider merely this one notion of <i>causation</i>; let him reflect on its origin; let him remember that, agreeably to this origin, it follows that we have no -right to view anything <i>in rerum naturâ</i> as objectively, or in itself, +right to view anything <i>in rerum naturâ</i> as objectively, or in itself, a cause; that, when, upon the fullest philosophic proof, we call A the cause of B, we do in fact only subsume A under the notion of a cause—we invest it with that function under that relation; that the @@ -4321,7 +4282,7 @@ defiance to any hostile hand. The test or defiance which I speak of takes the shape of certain <i>antinomies</i> (so they are termed), severe adamantine arguments, affirmative and negative, on two or three celebrated problems, with no appeal to any possible decision, -but one which involves the Kantian doctrines. A <i>quæstio vexata</i> is +but one which involves the Kantian doctrines. A <i>quæstio vexata</i> is proposed—for instance, the <i>infinite divisibility of matter</i>; each side of this question, <i>thesis</i> and <i>antithesis</i>, is argued; the logic is irresistible,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span> the links are perfect, and for each side alternately @@ -4549,7 +4510,7 @@ looked into his works, I exclaimed in my heart, with the widowed queen of Carthage, using her words in an altered application—</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Quæsivit lucem—<i>ingemuitque repertâ</i>."<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Quæsivit lucem—<i>ingemuitque repertâ</i>."<br /></span> </div></div> <p>Had the transcendental philosophy corresponded to my @@ -5144,7 +5105,7 @@ interesting person of the whole. He<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id=" he had travelled in Italy—then an aristocratic distinction; had a small, but interesting, picture gallery; and, at this time, amused himself by studying Greek, for which purpose he and myself met at -sunrise every morning through the summer, and read Æschylus together. +sunrise every morning through the summer, and read Æschylus together. These meetings, at which we sometimes had the company of any stranger who might happen to be an amateur in Greek, were pleasant enough to my schoolboy vanity—placing me in the position of teacher and guide @@ -5152,7 +5113,7 @@ to men old enough to be my grandfathers. But the dinner parties, at which the literati sometimes assembled in force, were far from being equally amusing. Mr. Roscoe<a name="FNanchor_26_26" id="FNanchor_26_26"></a><a href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a> was simple and manly in his demeanour; but there was the feebleness of a mere <i>belle-lettrist</i>, a mere man of -<i>virtù</i>, in the style of his sentiments on most subjects. Yet he was +<i>virtù</i>, in the style of his sentiments on most subjects. Yet he was a politician, and took an ardent interest in politics, and wrote upon politics—all which are facts usually presuming some vigour of mind. And he wrote, moreover, on the popular side, and with a boldness which, @@ -5350,7 +5311,7 @@ Servants—than it was or could be among the most bigoted of the professed feudal aristocrats. For my part, at this moment, when all the world was reading Currie's monument to the memory of Burns and the support of his family, I felt and avowed my feeling most loudly—that -Burns was wronged, was deeply, memorably wronged. A £10 bank note, +Burns was wronged, was deeply, memorably wronged. A £10 bank note, by way of subscription for a few copies of an early edition of his poems—this is the outside that I could ever see proof given of Burns having received anything in the way of <i>patronage</i>; and doubtless @@ -5470,7 +5431,7 @@ no sign of participating in my feelings; and, extravagant as this may seem, I revolted with as much hatred from coupling my question with any occasion of insult to the persons whom it respected, as a primitive Christian from throwing frankincense upon the altars of -Cæsar, or a lover from giving up the name of his beloved to the coarse +Cæsar, or a lover from giving up the name of his beloved to the coarse license of a Bacchanalian party. It is laughable to record for how long a period my curiosity in this particular was thus self-defeated. Two years passed before I ascertained the two names. Mr. Wordsworth @@ -5550,7 +5511,7 @@ in North Germany, for an intermitting one in London, and for a regular domestication with his sister at Race Down in Dorsetshire.</p> <p>Returning late from this interesting survey, we found ourselves -without company at dinner; and, being thus seated <i>tête-à-tête</i>, +without company at dinner; and, being thus seated <i>tête-à -tête</i>, Mr. Poole propounded the following question to me, which I mention because it furnished me with the first hint of a singular infirmity besetting Coleridge's mind:—"Pray, my young friend, did you ever @@ -5610,7 +5571,7 @@ wide course of reading.<a name="FNanchor_43_43" id="FNanchor_43_43"></a><a href= <p>1. The Hymn to Chamouni is an expansion of a short poem in stanzas, upon the same subject, by Frederica Brun, a female poet of Germany, -previously known to the world under her maiden name of Münter. The +previously known to the world under her maiden name of Münter. The mere framework of the poem is exactly the same—an appeal to the most impressive features of the regal mountain (Mont Blanc), adjuring them to proclaim their author: the torrent, for instance, is required to say @@ -5777,7 +5738,7 @@ only for weight, old rusty hinges, nails, crooked skewers stolen when the cook had turned her back, rags, broken glass, tea-cups having the bottom knocked out, and loads of similar jewels, were the prevailing articles in this -<i>procès-verbal</i>. Yet, doubtless, much labour had been incurred, +<i>procès-verbal</i>. Yet, doubtless, much labour had been incurred, some sense of danger perhaps had been faced, and the anxieties of a conscious robber endured, in order to amass this splendid treasure. Such in value were the robberies @@ -5999,7 +5960,7 @@ work. He had also preluded to this great work in a little English medical tract upon Joanna Stephens's medicine for the stone; for indeed Hartley was the person upon whose evidence the House of Commons had mainly relied in giving -to that same Joanna a reward of £5000 for her idle medicines—an +to that same Joanna a reward of £5000 for her idle medicines—an application of public money not without its use, in so far as it engaged men by selfish motives to cultivate the public service, and to attempt public problems of very @@ -6087,7 +6048,7 @@ his doctrines, and terrified him in his advance; else I am persuaded that Kant would have formally delivered Atheism from the professor's chair, and would have enthroned the horrid Ghoulish creed (which privately he professed) in the -University of Königsberg. It required the artillery of a +University of Königsberg. It required the artillery of a great king to make him pause: his menacing or warning letter to Kant is extant. The general notion is, that the royal logic applied so austerely to the public conduct of @@ -6424,7 +6385,7 @@ elementary books on the Latin language by this reverend gentleman; one of them, as I found, making somewhat higher pretensions than a common school grammar.<a name="FNanchor_53_53" id="FNanchor_53_53"></a><a href="#Footnote_53_53" class="fnanchor">[53]</a> In particular,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span> an attempt is made to reform the theory of the cases; and it -gives a pleasant specimen of the rustic scholar's <i>naïveté</i>, that +gives a pleasant specimen of the rustic scholar's <i>naïveté</i>, that he seriously proposes to banish such vexatious terms as the <i>accusative</i>; and, by way of simplifying the matter to tender minds, that we should call it, in all time to come, the "<i>quale-quare-quidditive</i>" @@ -6546,7 +6507,7 @@ told; and also otherwise.<a name="FNanchor_58_58" id="FNanchor_58_58"></a><a hre became acquainted with the two celebrated Wedgwoods of Etruria, both of whom, admiring his fine powers, subscribed to send him into North Germany, where, at the University of -Göttingen, he completed his education according to his own +Göttingen, he completed his education according to his own scheme. The most celebrated professor whose lectures he attended was the far-famed Blumenbach, of whom he continued to speak through life with almost filial reverence. @@ -6577,7 +6538,7 @@ first fell ill, every prospect of a career even nationally splendid.</p> <p>By the death of Mr. Wedgwood, Coleridge succeeded to -a regular annuity of £75, which that gentleman had bequeathed +a regular annuity of £75, which that gentleman had bequeathed to him. The other Mr. Wedgwood granted him an equal allowance. Now came his marriage, his connexion with politics and political journals, his residence in various @@ -6639,14 +6600,14 @@ able to <i>speak</i> German with any fluency. French, therefore, was the only medium of free communication; that being pretty equally familiar to Wordsworth and to Klopstock. But Coleridge found so much difficulty even in <i>reading</i> French -that, wherever (as in the case of Leibnitz's "Theodicée") there +that, wherever (as in the case of Leibnitz's "Theodicée") there was a choice between an original written in French and a translation, though it might be a very faulty one, in German, he always preferred the latter. Hence it happened that Wordsworth, on behalf of the English party, was the sole supporter of the dialogue. The anonymous critic says<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span> another thing, which certainly has an air of truth—viz. that -Klopstock plays a very secondary <i>rôle</i> in the interview (or +Klopstock plays a very secondary <i>rôle</i> in the interview (or words to that effect). But how was this to be avoided in reporting the case, supposing the fact to have been such? Now, the plain truth is that Wordsworth, upon his own @@ -7531,7 +7492,7 @@ for, whereas both Chairs had been won without <i>previous</i> knowledge, he resolved that in this case it should be maintained without <i>after</i> knowledge. He applied himself simply to the improvement of its income, which he raised -from £300 to at least £1000 per annum. All this he had +from £300 to at least £1000 per annum. All this he had accomplished before reaching the age of thirty-five.</p> <p>Riches are with us the parent of riches; and success, in @@ -7791,7 +7752,7 @@ Llandaff trod with the infirm footing of a child. He listened to what Coleridge reported with the same sort of pleasurable surprise, alternating with starts of doubt or incredulity, as would naturally attend a detailed report from -Laputa—which aërial region of speculation does but too often +Laputa—which aërial region of speculation does but too often recur to a sober-minded person in reading of the endless freaks in philosophy of Modern Germany, where the sceptre of Mutability, that potentate celebrated by Spenser, gathers @@ -7860,7 +7821,7 @@ illuminated—recollections which will</p> <p>and bring into collision the present with some long-forgotten past, in a form too trying and too painful for endurance. I have a brilliant Scotch friend, who cannot walk on the seashore—within -sight of its ανηριθμον γελασμα (anêrithmon gelasma), the multitudinous +sight of its ανηριθμον γελασμα (anêrithmon gelasma), the multitudinous laughter of its waves, or within hearing of its resounding uproar, because they bring up, by links of old association, too insupportably to his mind the agitations of his @@ -7991,7 +7952,7 @@ domestic habits of eccentric men of genius, much more those of a man so irreclaimably irregular as Coleridge, can hardly be supposed to promise very auspiciously for any connexion so close as this. A very extensive house and household, together with the unlimited licence of action -which belongs to the <i>ménage</i> of some great Dons amongst the nobility, +which belongs to the <i>ménage</i> of some great Dons amongst the nobility, could alone have made Coleridge an inmate perfectly desirable. Probably many little jealousies and offences had been mutually suppressed; but the particular spark which at length fell amongst the combustible @@ -8200,7 +8161,7 @@ why."</p> was certainly the original source of Coleridge's morbid feelings, of his debility, and of his remorse. His pecuniary embarrassments pressed as lightly as could well be expected -upon him. I have mentioned the annuity of £150 made +upon him. I have mentioned the annuity of £150 made to him by the two Wedgwoods. One half, I believe, could not be withdrawn, having been left by a regular testamentary bequest. But the other moiety, coming from the surviving @@ -8338,7 +8299,7 @@ speculations built upon the distinction of Whig and Tory, even by as philosophic a politician as Edmund Burke, there is an oversight of the largest practical importance. But the general and partisan use of these terms superadds to this -πρωτον ψευδος (prôton pseudos) a second which is much more flagrant. It is +πρωτον ψευδος (prôton pseudos) a second which is much more flagrant. It is this: the terms Whig or Tory, used by partisans, are taken <i>extra gradum</i>, as expressing the ideal or extreme cases of the several creeds; whereas, in actual life, few such cases are @@ -8367,7 +8328,7 @@ meetings as leaders or as assistants, or by writing books and pamphlets in the same cause; secondly, those whose rank, or birth, or position in a city, or a rural district, almost pledges them to a share in the political struggles of the day, under the -penalty of being held <i>fainéans</i>, truants, or even malignant +penalty of being held <i>fainéans</i>, truants, or even malignant recusants, if they should decline a warfare which often, perhaps, they do not love in secret. These classes, which, after all, are not numerous, and not entirely sincere, compose the @@ -8831,7 +8792,7 @@ showing the circumstances under which it arose. But she has also opened a new view of other circumstances under which an apparent plagiarism arose that was not real. I myself, for instance, knew cases where Coleridge gave to young ladies a copy of verses, headed thus—"Lines -on——, from the German of Hölty." Other young ladies +on——, from the German of Hölty." Other young ladies made transcripts of these lines; and, caring nothing for the German authorship, naturally fathered them upon Coleridge, the translator. These lines were subsequently circulated as Coleridge's, and as if on @@ -8931,7 +8892,7 @@ of the century to the year 1808. Afterwards, for many a year, it was mine. Catching one hasty glimpse of this loveliest of landscapes, I retreated like a guilty thing, for fear I might be surprised by Wordsworth, and then returned faintheartedly to Coniston, and so to -Oxford, <i>re infectâ</i>.</p> +Oxford, <i>re infectâ</i>.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span></p> @@ -9052,7 +9013,7 @@ only, for once or twice in my life, woman herself. Now, however, I <i>did</i> tremble; and I forgot, what in no other circumstances I could have forgotten, to stop for the coming up of the chaise, that I might be ready to hand Mrs. Coleridge out. Had Charlemagne and all his -peerage been behind me, or Cæsar and his equipage, or Death on his +peerage been behind me, or Cæsar and his equipage, or Death on his pale horse, I should have forgotten them at that moment of intense expectation, and of eyes fascinated to what lay before me, or what might in a moment appear. Through the little gate I pressed forward; @@ -9195,7 +9156,7 @@ all the rest, and it was one which equally operated to the benefit of every casual companion in a walk—viz. the exceeding sympathy, always ready and always profound, by which she made all that one could tell her, all that one could describe, all that one could quote from a -foreign author, reverberate, as it were, <i>à plusieurs reprises</i>, to +foreign author, reverberate, as it were, <i>à plusieurs reprises</i>, to one's own feelings, by the manifest impression it made upon <i>hers</i>. The pulses of light are not more quick or more inevitable in their flow and undulation, than were the answering and echoing movements of her @@ -9928,7 +9889,7 @@ motherly old "dames," technically so called at Eton, but not at Hawkshead. In the latter place, agreeably to the inferior scale of the whole establishment, the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[Pg 261]</a></span> houses were smaller, and more cottage-like, consequently more like private households: and the old lady of the -<i>ménage</i> was more constantly amongst them, providing, with maternal +<i>ménage</i> was more constantly amongst them, providing, with maternal tenderness and with a professional pride, for the comfort of her young flock, and protecting the weak from oppression. The humble cares to which these poor matrons dedicated themselves may be collected from @@ -10118,7 +10079,7 @@ without a poet's blood in his veins, might have leave to forget his sobriety in such circumstances. Besides which, after all, I have heard from Wordsworth's own lips that he was not too far gone to attend chapel decorously during the -very acmé of his elevation.<a name="FNanchor_108_108" id="FNanchor_108_108"></a><a href="#Footnote_108_108" class="fnanchor">[108]</a></p> +very acmé of his elevation.<a name="FNanchor_108_108" id="FNanchor_108_108"></a><a href="#Footnote_108_108" class="fnanchor">[108]</a></p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[Pg 267]</a></span></p> <p>The rooms which Wordsworth occupied at St. John's were singularly circumstanced; mementoes of what is highest and @@ -10310,7 +10271,7 @@ revolutionary principles of composition, and his purer taste, ended in obtaining for him nothing but scorn and ruffian insolence.</p> <p>This seems marvellous; but, in fact, it is not so: it seems, I mean, -<i>primâ facie</i>, marvellous that the inferior models should be fitted +<i>primâ facie</i>, marvellous that the inferior models should be fitted to gain a far higher reputation; but the secret lies here—that these were in a style of composition which, if<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[Pg 272]</a></span> sometimes false, had been long reconciled to the public feelings, and which, besides, have a @@ -10494,7 +10455,7 @@ bestow upon his former selfish and frivolous pursuits. He was hurried, as one inspired by some high apostolic passion, into the service of the unhappy and desolate serfs amongst his own countrymen—such as are described, at an earlier<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[Pg 277]</a></span> -date, by Madame de Sevigné, as the victims of feudal institutions; +date, by Madame de Sevigné, as the victims of feudal institutions; and one day, as he was walking with Wordsworth in the neighbourhood of Orleans, and they had turned into a little quiet lane, leading off from a heath, suddenly they @@ -10625,7 +10586,7 @@ or feudal privilege. Nay, he went so far upon the line of this new crusade against the evils of the world that he even accepted, with a conscientious defiance of his own quiet homage to the erring spirit of loyalty embarked upon that cause, a commission in the Republican armies -preparing to move against La Vendée; and, finally, in that cause, +preparing to move against La Vendée; and, finally, in that cause, as commander-in-chief, he laid down his life. "He perished," says Wordsworth—</p> @@ -10971,7 +10932,7 @@ strong natural endowments; else, as his talk was of oxen, I might have made the mistake of supposing him to be, in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[Pg 290]</a></span> heart and soul, what he was in profession—a mere farming country gentleman, whose ambition was chiefly directed to the turning up of mighty turnips. The sum -left by Raisley Calvert was £900; and it was laid out in an annuity. +left by Raisley Calvert was £900; and it was laid out in an annuity. This was the basis of Wordsworth's prosperity in life; and upon this he has built up, by a series of accessions, in which each step, taken separately for itself, seems perfectly natural, whilst the total result @@ -11000,10 +10961,10 @@ himself and his office into two different places—the latter falling, of course, into the hands of Wordsworth.</p> <p>This office, which it was Wordsworth's pleasure to speak of as -"a little one," yielded, I believe, somewhere about £500 a year. +"a little one," yielded, I believe, somewhere about £500 a year. Gradually, even <i>that</i>, with all former sources of income, became insufficient; which ought not to surprise anybody; for a son at Oxford, -as a gentleman commoner, would spend, at the least, £300 per annum; and +as a gentleman commoner, would spend, at the least, £300 per annum; and there were<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[Pg 291]</a></span> other children. Still, it is wrong to say that it <i>had</i> become insufficient; as usual, it had not come to that; but, on the first symptoms arising that it soon <i>would</i> come to that, somebody, of @@ -11017,11 +10978,11 @@ had such consideration for him as not to remodel the office so long as he lived, on the other hand, the least he could do for "people" in return—so as to show his sense of this consideration—was not to trespass on so much goodness longer than necessary. Accordingly, -here, as in all cases before, the <i>Deus ex machinâ</i> who invariably +here, as in all cases before, the <i>Deus ex machinâ</i> who invariably interfered when any <i>nodus</i> arose in Wordsworth's affairs, such as could be considered <i>vindice dignus</i>, caused the distributor to begone into a region where no stamps are wanted, about the very -month, or so, when an additional £400 per annum became desirable. +month, or so, when an additional £400 per annum became desirable. This, or perhaps more, was understood to have been added, by the new arrangement, to the Westmoreland distributorship; the small towns of Keswick and Cockermouth, together with the important one of Whitehaven, @@ -11239,7 +11200,7 @@ have barely enough to read a plain modern page of narrative; Italian, I question whether any; German, just enough to insult the German literati, by showing how little she had found them or their writings necessary to her heart. The "Luise" of Voss, the "Hermann und Dorothea" -of Goethe she had begun to translate, as young ladies do "Télémaque"; +of Goethe she had begun to translate, as young ladies do "Télémaque"; but, like them, had chiefly cultivated the first two pages<a name="FNanchor_123_123" id="FNanchor_123_123"></a><a href="#Footnote_123_123" class="fnanchor">[123]</a>; with the third she had a slender acquaintance, and with the fourth she meditated an intimacy at some future day. Music, in her solitary and @@ -11478,7 +11439,7 @@ little of the dish before one; or, plagued for a reason which is not forthcoming, one may deprecate this logical rigour by inviting one's tormentor to wine. In short, what I mean to say is, that a dinner party, or any meal which is made the meal for intellectual relaxation, -must for ever offer the advantages of a <i>palæstra</i> in which the weapons +must for ever offer the advantages of a <i>palæstra</i> in which the weapons are foils and the wounds not mortal: in which, whilst the interest is that of a real, the danger is that of a sham fight: in which whilst there is always an opportunity for swimming into deep waters, there is @@ -11521,7 +11482,7 @@ no glittering breakfast service; a kettle boiled upon the fire, and everything was in harmony with these unpretending arrangements. I, the son of a merchant, and naturally, therefore, in the midst of luxurious (though not ostentatious) display from my childhood, had never seen so -humble a <i>ménage</i>: and, contrasting the dignity of the man with this +humble a <i>ménage</i>: and, contrasting the dignity of the man with this honourable poverty, and this courageous avowal of it, his utter absence of all effort to disguise the simple truth of the case, I felt my admiration increase to the uttermost by all I saw. This, thought I to @@ -11836,7 +11797,7 @@ before—I met a person who had once enjoyed the signal honour of travelling with him to London. It was in a stage-coach. But the person in question well knew <i>who</i> it was that had been his <i>compagnon de voyage</i>. Immediately he was glorified in my eyes. "And," said I, to -this glorified gentleman (who, <i>par parenthése</i>, was also a donkey), +this glorified gentleman (who, <i>par parenthése</i>, was also a donkey), "Now, as you travelled nearly three hundred miles in the company of Mr. Wordsworth, consequently (for this was in 1805) during two nights and two days, doubtless you must have heard many profound remarks that @@ -12005,18 +11966,18 @@ comprehends more than a section of the human power.</p> as early as 1808 (for I think that I remember in that Journal an account of the Battle of Vimiera), Southey was engaged by an Edinburgh publisher (Constable, was it not?) to write the entire historical part -of the <i>Edinburgh Annual Register</i>, at a salary of £400 per annum. +of the <i>Edinburgh Annual Register</i>, at a salary of £400 per annum. Afterwards, the publisher, who was intensely national, and, doubtless, never from the first cordially<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[Pg 320]</a></span> relished the notion of importing English aid into a city teeming with briefless barristers and variety of talent, threw out a hint that perhaps he might reduce the salary -to £300. Just about this time I happened to see Southey, who said +to £300. Just about this time I happened to see Southey, who said laughingly—"If the man of Edinburgh does this, I shall <i>strike</i> for an advance of wages." I presume that he <i>did</i> strike, and, like many other "operatives," without effect. Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called <i>snobs</i>,<a name="FNanchor_132_132" id="FNanchor_132_132"></a><a href="#Footnote_132_132" class="fnanchor">[132]</a> the men who stand out being <i>nobs</i>. Southey became a resolute nob; but some snob was found in Edinburgh, -some youthful advocate, who accepted £300 per annum, and thenceforward +some youthful advocate, who accepted £300 per annum, and thenceforward Southey lost this part of his income. I once possessed the whole work: and in one part, viz. the <i>Domestic Chronicle</i>, I know that it is executed with a most culpable carelessness—the beginnings of cases @@ -12375,7 +12336,7 @@ pregnant with much meaning—he finds it advantageous, and, moreover, the style of his mind naturally prompts him, to adopt a trenchant, pungent, aculeated form of terse, glittering, stenographic sentences—sayings which have the air of laying -down the law without any <i>locus penitentiæ</i> or privilege of +down the law without any <i>locus penitentiæ</i> or privilege of appeal, but are not meant to do so; in short, aiming at brevity for the company as well as for himself, by cutting off all opening for discussion and desultory talk through the @@ -12464,7 +12425,7 @@ action: fear for his boy quelled his very power of perception. of emotions travelled over his countenance. I saw the whole, a silent observer from the shore. First a hasty blush of resentment mingled with astonishment: then a good-natured -smile of indulgence to the <i>naïveté</i> of the paternal +smile of indulgence to the <i>naïveté</i> of the paternal feeling as displaying itself in the act, and the accompanying gestures of frenzied impatience; finally, a considerate, grave expression of acquiescence in the whole act; but with a @@ -12546,14 +12507,14 @@ all the more important contributions would be from selected hands, and that, as the historical department was the most important,—a luminous picture of the current events of the world from year to year<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_334" id="Page_334">[Pg 334]</a></span> being "a task for a man of genius,"—they proposed to give their -"historian" £300 a year,—"no deaf nuts," adds Scott, in comment +"historian" £300 a year,—"no deaf nuts," adds Scott, in comment on the sum. A certain eminent person had already been offered the post, Scott proceeds; but, should "the great man" decline, would Kirkpatrick Sharpe himself accept it? The "great man" was Southey; he did accept; and for some years he had the accredited charge of the historical department of the <i>Register</i>. From the first, however, the venture did not pay; and, the loss upon it having gone -on for some time at the rate of £1000 a year, Scott,—who had been +on for some time at the rate of £1000 a year, Scott,—who had been tending to a reconciliation with Constable on other grounds,—was glad when, in 1813, Constable took a portion of the burden of the concern off his hands. It is possible that this accession of Constable @@ -12570,7 +12531,7 @@ after trying for one year a less eminent hand, that, if the work were not to be dropped altogether, some strenuous exertion should be made to sustain its character."—From all this it will be seen that De Quincey is wrong in his fancy that the proposal to reduce Southey's -salary (from £400 to £300, he says, but was it not £300 from the +salary (from £400 to £300, he says, but was it not £300 from the first?) was a mere device for getting rid of him because he was an Englishman, and because a Scottish "snob" of the Parliament House could be got to do the work at a cheaper rate; or, at all events, @@ -12721,8 +12682,8 @@ a beautiful lake, remote from great capitals, a large, or, at least, sufficient library (in each case, I believe, the library ranged, as to numerical amount, between seven and ten thousand); and, like Gibbon, he was the most accomplished -<i>littérateur</i> amongst the erudite scholars of his time, and the -most of an erudite scholar amongst the accomplished <i>littérateurs</i>. +<i>littérateur</i> amongst the erudite scholars of his time, and the +most of an erudite scholar amongst the accomplished <i>littérateurs</i>. After all these points of agreement known, it remains as a pure advantage on the side of Southey—a mere <i>lucro ponatur</i>—that he was a poet; and, by all men's confession, a respectable @@ -12959,7 +12920,7 @@ still valid as respected any argument from the Lakers; for the strongest of these arguments that ever came to my knowledge was a mere appeal—not <i>ad verecundiam</i>, in the ordinary sense of the phrase, but <i>ad honestatem</i>, as if it were shocking to the -<i>honestum</i> of Roman ethics (the <i>honnêteté</i> of French minor +<i>honestum</i> of Roman ethics (the <i>honnêteté</i> of French minor ethics) that the check derived from self-restraint should not be supposed amply competent to redress all the dangers from a redundant population under any certain knowledge generally @@ -13069,7 +13030,7 @@ suitable to her own fervent and hospitable temper than to the habits of our hostess, who must (from what I came to know of her in after years) have looked upon me as an intruder. Something <i>had</i> reached Miss Wordsworth of her -penurious <i>ménage</i>, but nothing that approached the truth. +penurious <i>ménage</i>, but nothing that approached the truth. I was presented to the lady, whom we found a perfect <i>bas bleu</i> of a very commonplace order, but having some other accomplishments beyond her slender acquaintance with literature. @@ -13231,7 +13192,7 @@ and I sympathize heartily with that indulgent person of whom it is somewhere recorded that, upon an occasion when the death of a man happened to be mentioned who was unanimously pronounced a wretch without one good quality, -"<i>monstrum nullâ virtute redemptum</i>," he ventured, however, +"<i>monstrum nullâ virtute redemptum</i>," he ventured, however, at last, in a deprecatory tone to say—"Well, he did <i>whistle</i> beautifully, at any rate."</p> @@ -13255,7 +13216,7 @@ harp; making that, which in most hands is a mere monotonous jarring, a dull reverberating vibration, into a delightful lyre of no inconsiderable compass. We have since heard of, some of us have heard, the chinchopper. Within the last -hundred years, we have had the Æolian harp (first mentioned +hundred years, we have had the Æolian harp (first mentioned and described in the "Castle of Indolence," which I think was first published entire about 1738<a name="FNanchor_144_144" id="FNanchor_144_144"></a><a href="#Footnote_144_144" class="fnanchor">[144]</a>); then the musical glasses; then the <i>celestina</i>, to represent the music of @@ -13438,7 +13399,7 @@ therefore again in November, but November of the year 1808, I repeated my visit to Wordsworth, and upon a longer scale. I found him removed from his cottage to a house of considerable size, about three-quarters of a mile distant, called Allan Bank. This house had been very recently -erected, at an expense of about £1500, by a gentleman from Liverpool, +erected, at an expense of about £1500, by a gentleman from Liverpool, a merchant, and also a lawyer in some department or other. It was not yet completely finished; and an odd accident was reported to me as having befallen it in its earliest stage. The walls had been @@ -13658,7 +13619,7 @@ cottage architecture, and wanting also another very interesting feature of the elder architecture, annually becoming more and more rare,—viz. the outside gallery (which is sometimes merely of wood, but is much more striking when provided for in the original construction of the -house, and completely <i>enfoncé</i> in the masonry),—could not rank high +house, and completely <i>enfoncé</i> in the masonry),—could not rank high amongst the picturesque houses of the country; those, at least, which are such by virtue of their architectural form. It was, however, very irregular in its outline to the rear, by the aid of one little @@ -13995,7 +13956,7 @@ Calgarth (the house of Dr. Watson, the celebrated Bishop of Llandaff, upon the banks of Windermere).—"<i>What</i> John Wilkes?" re-echoed the Bishop, with a vehement intonation of scorn; "<i>What</i> John Wilkes, indeed! as if there was ever more than one John Wilkes—<i>fama super -æthera notus</i>!"—"O, my Lord, I beg your<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_376" id="Page_376">[Pg 376]</a></span> pardon," said an old lady, +æthera notus</i>!"—"O, my Lord, I beg your<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_376" id="Page_376">[Pg 376]</a></span> pardon," said an old lady, nearly connected with the Bishop, "there were two; I knew one of them: he was a little, ill-looking man, and he kept the Blue Boar at——."—"At Flamborough Head!" roared the Bishop, with a savage @@ -14527,8 +14488,8 @@ long one from the state of prosperity in which I found Lloyd about the overthrow of all hopes on his behalf. In the three years I have assigned, his situation seemed luxuriously happy, as regarded the external elements of happiness. He had, without effort of his own, an -income, most punctually remitted from his father, of from £1500 to -£1800 per annum. This income was entirely resigned to the management +income, most punctually remitted from his father, of from £1500 to +£1800 per annum. This income was entirely resigned to the management of his prudent and excellent wife; and, as his own personal expenses, separate from those of his family, were absolutely none at all, except for books, she applied the whole either to the education of her @@ -14545,7 +14506,7 @@ for splendour. Consequently, a very large part of their income was disposable for purposes of hospitality; and, when I first knew them, Low Brathay was distinguished above every other house at the head of Windermere, or within ten miles of that neighbourhood, by the judicious -assortment of its dinner parties, and the gaiety of its <i>soirées +assortment of its dinner parties, and the gaiety of its <i>soirées dansantes</i>. These parties were never crowded; poor Lloyd rarely danced himself; but it gladdened his benevolent heart to see the young and blooming floating through the mazes of the dances then fashionable, @@ -14812,7 +14773,7 @@ then transferred to some more eligible asylum; then liberated from all restraint; after which, with his family, he went to France; where again it became necessary to deprive him of liberty. And, finally, in France it was that his feverish existence found at length a natural rest and -an everlasting liberty; for there it was, in a <i>maison de santé</i>, at +an everlasting liberty; for there it was, in a <i>maison de santé</i>, at or near Versailles, that he died (and I believe tranquilly), a few years after he had left England. Death was indeed to him, in the words of that fine mystic, Blake the artist, a "golden gate"—the gate of @@ -15152,7 +15113,7 @@ and would receive no favours from the creditors. Under this scorching test, applied to the fidelity of friends, many, whom Mrs. Smith mentions in one of her letters under the name of "summer friends," fled from them by crowds: -dinners, balls, soirées—credit, influence, support—these things +dinners, balls, soirées—credit, influence, support—these things were no longer to be had from Piercefield. But more annoying even than the fickle levity of such open deserters, was the timid and doubtful countenance, as I have heard Mrs. @@ -16057,7 +16018,7 @@ tinker or masterful beggar, the moral of which teaches him that there are better men in the world than himself. What follows? Is the brave man angry with his stout-hearted antagonist because he is no less brave and a little stronger than himself? Not at all; he insists on -making him a present, on giving him a <i>dejeuner à la fourchette</i>, and +making him a present, on giving him a <i>dejeuner à la fourchette</i>, and (in case he is disposed to take service in the forest) finally adopts him into his band of archers. Much the same spirit governed, in his earlier years, Professor Wilson. And, though a man of prudence cannot @@ -16669,7 +16630,7 @@ indispensable, yet in itself, and though followed by the sincerest efforts at reformation of life, to be utterly unavailing as any operative part of the means by which man gains acceptance with God. To rely upon repentance, or upon anything that man can do for himself, -that Mrs. Hannah More considered as the mortal taint, as the πρωτον ψευδος (prôton pseudos), +that Mrs. Hannah More considered as the mortal taint, as the πρωτον ψευδος (prôton pseudos), in the worldly theories of the Christian scheme; and I have heard the two ladies—Mrs. More and Mrs. Siddons, I mean—talking by the hour together, as completely at cross purposes as it is possible @@ -16813,7 +16774,7 @@ printed on Japanese Paper.</p></blockquote> <p><i>Also to be had in full limp leather, gilt edges, price 3s. 6d. per volume.</i></p> -<p>Sets, cloth ... Price £3:2:6.</p> +<p>Sets, cloth ... Price £3:2:6.</p> <p><i>Sets can also be had in various leather bindings. Prices upon application.</i></p> @@ -16994,7 +16955,7 @@ this extravagant assertion, I will venture to say that the two following are the sole cases of questionable idiom throughout Milton:—1st, "Yet virgin of Proserpina from Jove"; and, in this case, the same thing might be urged in apology which Aristotle urges in another argument, -namely, that πρωτον ψευδος (anônymon to pathos), the case is unprovided with <i>any</i> +namely, that πρωτον ψευδος (anônymon to pathos), the case is unprovided with <i>any</i> suitable expression. How would it be possible to convey in good English the circumstances here indicated: viz. that Ceres was yet in those days of maiden innocence, when she had borne no daughter to @@ -17101,7 +17062,7 @@ Literature and Science</i> (London, 1815).—M.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_28_28" id="Footnote_28_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_28_28" class="label">[28]</a> Dr. James Currie, born 1756, a native of Dumfriesshire, settled in Liverpool, in medical practice, in 1781. His edition of Burns, with memoir and criticism, published in 1800, was for the -benefit of the widow and children of the poet, and realised £1400. +benefit of the widow and children of the poet, and realised £1400. Currie died in 1805.—M.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_29_29" id="Footnote_29_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_29_29" class="label">[29]</a> Wordsworth's publication was in 1816, under the title @@ -17273,13 +17234,13 @@ Quincey.—M.</p> 1812, are mainly on agricultural subjects, in the form of tours and statistics, but include political doctrines and theories.—M.</p> -<p><a name="Footnote_51_51" id="Footnote_51_51"></a><a href="#FNanchor_51_51" class="label">[51]</a> The service consisted in a gift by De Quincey of £300 conveyed +<p><a name="Footnote_51_51" id="Footnote_51_51"></a><a href="#FNanchor_51_51" class="label">[51]</a> The service consisted in a gift by De Quincey of £300 conveyed to Coleridge through the Bristol bookseller Cottle. Coleridge's receipt to Cottle for the money is dated 12th November 1807. Coleridge knew nothing more at the time than that the gift came from "a young man of fortune who admired his talents." De Quincey, who had but recently attained his majority, had then plenty of money. He wanted, -indeed, to make the gift £500; but Cottle insisted on reducing the +indeed, to make the gift £500; but Cottle insisted on reducing the sum.—M.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_52_52" id="Footnote_52_52"></a><a href="#FNanchor_52_52" class="label">[52]</a> Coleridge was born there 21st October 1772, the youngest of a @@ -17287,7 +17248,7 @@ family of nine brothers and four sisters, three of the sisters by a previous marriage of his father.—M.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_53_53" id="Footnote_53_53"></a><a href="#FNanchor_53_53" class="label">[53]</a> <i>A Critical Latin Grammar</i>, published for the author in 1772, and -<i>Sententiæ Excerptæ, explaining the Rules of Grammar</i>, printed for the +<i>Sententiæ Excerptæ, explaining the Rules of Grammar</i>, printed for the author in 1777. He also published a political sermon. Besides being vicar of Ottery St. Mary, he was master of the grammar school there.—M.</p> @@ -17419,14 +17380,14 @@ from Madras of that machinery for facilitating popular education which was afterwards fraudulently appropriated by Joseph Lancaster. The Bishop of Durham (Shute Barrington) gave to Dr. Bell, in reward of his Madras services, the princely Mastership of Sherborne Hospital. The -doctor saved in this post £125,000, and with this money founded Trinity +doctor saved in this post £125,000, and with this money founded Trinity College, Glenalmond, in Perthshire. Most men have their enemies and calumniators: Dr. Bell had <i>his</i>, who happened rather indecorously to be his wife—from whom he was legally separated, or (as in Scotch -law it is called) <i>divorced</i>; not, of course, divorced <i>à vinculo +law it is called) <i>divorced</i>; not, of course, divorced <i>à vinculo matrimonii</i> (which only amounts to a divorce in the English sense—such a divorce as enables the parties to contract another marriage), but -simply divorced <i>à mensâ et thoro</i>. This legal separation, however, +simply divorced <i>à mensâ et thoro</i>. This legal separation, however, did not prevent the lady from persecuting the unhappy doctor with everlasting letters, indorsed outside with records of her enmity and spite. Sometimes she addressed her epistles thus:—"To that supreme @@ -17586,7 +17547,7 @@ Edinburgh Edition of his writings in 1854.—M.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_90_90" id="Footnote_90_90"></a><a href="#FNanchor_90_90" class="label">[90]</a> At the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, where the town is viewed as a mere ministerial appendage to the numerous colleges—the civic Oxford, for instance, existing for the sake of the -academic Oxford, and not <i>vice versâ</i>—it has naturally happened that +academic Oxford, and not <i>vice versâ</i>—it has naturally happened that the students honour with the name of "<i>a man</i>" him only who wears a cap and gown.</p> @@ -17909,9 +17870,9 @@ believing all the infamous stories which we read about her.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_122_122" id="Footnote_122_122"></a><a href="#FNanchor_122_122" class="label">[122]</a> In the concluding Book of the <i>Prelude</i>.—M.</p> -<p><a name="Footnote_123_123" id="Footnote_123_123"></a><a href="#FNanchor_123_123" class="label">[123]</a> Viz., "Calypso ne savoit se consoler du départ," &c. +<p><a name="Footnote_123_123" id="Footnote_123_123"></a><a href="#FNanchor_123_123" class="label">[123]</a> Viz., "Calypso ne savoit se consoler du départ," &c. For how long a period (viz., nearly two centuries) has Calypso been -inconsolable in the morning studies of young ladies! As Fénélon's +inconsolable in the morning studies of young ladies! As Fénélon's most dreary romance always opened at one or other of these three earliest and dreary pages, naturally to my sympathetic fancy the poor unhappy goddess seemed to be eternally aground on this Goodwin Sand of @@ -17978,7 +17939,7 @@ largely.</p> edition, he adds here:—"One single paper, for instance—viz. a review of Nelson's life, which subsequently was expanded into his very popular little book on that subject—brought him the splendid honorarium -of £150."—M.</p> +of £150."—M.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_132_132" id="Footnote_132_132"></a><a href="#FNanchor_132_132" class="label">[132]</a> See the Evidence before the House of Commons' Committee. [De Quincey does not give the date, nor the occasion.—M.]</p> @@ -18048,18 +18009,18 @@ life of Milton—1608-74.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_142_142" id="Footnote_142_142"></a><a href="#FNanchor_142_142" class="label">[142]</a> In fact, the exposure is as perfect in the case of an individual as in that of a nation, and more easily apprehended. Levy from an individual -clothier £1000 in taxes, and afterwards return to him the whole +clothier £1000 in taxes, and afterwards return to him the whole of this sum in payment for the clothing of a regiment. Then, supposing profits to be at the rate of 15 per cent, he will have replaced -£150 of his previous loss; even his gains will simply reinstate him in -something that he had lost, and the remaining £850 will continue to -be a dead loss; since the £850 restored to him exactly replaces, by +£150 of his previous loss; even his gains will simply reinstate him in +something that he had lost, and the remaining £850 will continue to +be a dead loss; since the £850 restored to him exactly replaces, by the terms of this case, his disbursements in wages and materials; if it did more, profits would not be at 15 per cent, according to the supposition. -But Government may spend <i>more</i> than the £1000 with this -clothier; they may spend £10,000. Doubtless, and in that case, on -the same supposition as to profits, he will receive £1500 as a nominal -gain; and £500 will be a real gain, marked with the positive +But Government may spend <i>more</i> than the £1000 with this +clothier; they may spend £10,000. Doubtless, and in that case, on +the same supposition as to profits, he will receive £1500 as a nominal +gain; and £500 will be a real gain, marked with the positive sign (+). But such a case would only prove that nine other taxpayers, to an equal amount, had been left without any reimbursement at all. Strange that so clear a case for an individual should @@ -18081,7 +18042,7 @@ referred to by De Quincey:— <span class="i0">From which, with airy flying fingers light,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Beyond each mortal touch the most refined;<br /></span> <span class="i0">The god of winds drew sounds of deep delight;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Whence, with just cause, the Harp of Æolus it hight."—M.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whence, with just cause, the Harp of Æolus it hight."—M.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -18196,7 +18157,7 @@ the Society of Friends</i>), or the ambiguous one of <i>young female Friends</i> <p><a name="Footnote_166_166" id="Footnote_166_166"></a><a href="#FNanchor_166_166" class="label">[166]</a> The approach from Ambleside or Hawkshead, though fine, is far less so than from Grasmere, through the vale of Tilberthwaite, -to which, for a <i>coup de théâtre</i>, I recollect nothing equal. Taking +to which, for a <i>coup de théâtre</i>, I recollect nothing equal. Taking the left-hand road, so as to make for Monk Coniston, and not for Church Coniston, you ascend a pretty steep hill, from which, at a certain point of the little gorge or <i>hawse</i> (<i>i.e.</i> <i>hals</i>, neck or throat, @@ -18363,382 +18324,6 @@ the age of 88.—M.</p> </div> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Collected Writing of Thomas De -Quincey, Vol. II, by Thomas De Quincey - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WRITING OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY *** - -***** This file should be named 42909-h.htm or 42909-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/9/0/42909/ - -Produced by Les Galloway, Jason Isbell and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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