Part 39 (2/2)

_Sailing with supreme dominion_. Gray's ”Progress of Poesy.”

_He lisped_. Pope's ”Prologue to the Satires,” 128.

_Ode on Chatterton_. ”Monody on the Death of Chatterton,” written by Coleridge in 1790, at the age of eighteen.

P. 209. _gained several prizes_. ”At Cambridge Coleridge won the Browne Gold Medal for a Greek Ode in 1792.” Waller-Glover.

_At Christ's Hospital_, a London school which Leigh Hunt and Lamb attended about the same time as Coleridge. The former has left a record of its life in his ”Autobiography,” and Lamb has written of it, with special reference to Coleridge, in his ”Recollections of Christ's Hospital” and ”Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago.”

_Struggling in vain_. ”Excursion,” VI, 557.

P. 210. _Hartley_, David (1705-1757), author of ”Observations on Man”

(1749), and identified chiefly with the theory of a.s.sociation. Cf.

Coleridge's ”Religious Musings,” 368: ”and he of mortal kind Wisest, he first who marked the ideal tribes Up the fine fibres through the sentient brain.”

_Dr. Priestley_, Joseph (1733-1804), scientist and philosopher of the materialistic school, author of ”The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Ill.u.s.trated” (1777). ”See! Priestley there, patriot, and saint, and sage.”

”Religious Musings,” 371.

_Bishop Berkeley's fairy-world_. George Berkeley (1685-1753), idealistic philosopher. Cf. p. 287.

_Malebranche_, Nicholas (1638-1715), author of ”De la Recherche de la Verite” (1674).

_Cudworth_, Ralph (1617-1688), author of ”The True Intellectual System of the Universe” (1678).

_Lord Brook's hieroglyphical theories_. Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628), friend and biographer of Sir Philip Sidney.

_Bishop Butler's Sermons_. Joseph Butler (1692-1752), author of ”Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel” (1726), and ”The a.n.a.logy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Const.i.tution and Course of Nature”

(1736).

_d.u.c.h.ess of Newcastle_. Margaret Cavendish (1624?-1674), published about a dozen folio volumes of philosophical fancies, poems, and plays. In ”Mackery End in Hertfords.h.i.+re” Lamb refers to her as ”the thrice n.o.ble, chaste, and virtuous, but again somewhat fantastical and original-brained, generous Margaret Newcastle.”

_Clarke_, Samuel (1675-1729), English theologian of lat.i.tudinarian principles.

_South_, Robert (1634-1716), controversial writer and preacher.

_Tillotson_, John (1630-1694), a popular theological writer of rationalistic tendency.

_Leibnitz's Pre-established Harmony_. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646-1716), a German philosopher, represented the world as consisting of an infinite number of independent substances or monads related to each other in such a way (by the pre-established harmony) as to form one universe. Cf. Coleridge's ”Destiny of Nations,” 38 ff.:

”Others boldlier think That as one body seems the aggregate Of atoms numberless, each organized; So by a strange and dim similitude Infinite myriads of self-conscious minds Are an all-conscious spirit, which informs With absolute ubiquity of thought (His own eternal self-affirming act!) All his involved Monads, that yet seem With various province and apt agency Each to pursue its own self-centering end.”

P. 210, n. _And so by many_. ”Two Gentlemen of Verona,” ii, 7, 30.

P. 211. _hortus siccus_ [dry garden] _of Dissent_. Burke's ”Reflections on the French Revolution,” Works, ed. Bohn, II, 287.

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