On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
notes . *] Will you send them to Lunn and Deighton , and ask of them whether they would choose to have their names on the title-page as publishers ? and would you permit me to have yours ? Robinson , and I believe , Cadell , will be the London publishers . Be so kind as to send an immediate answer .
Please to present one of each of my pamphlets to Mr . Hall . I wish that I could reach the perfection of his style . I think his style the best in the English language—if he have a rival , it is Mrs . Barbauld . You have , of course , seen Bishop Watson ' s 'Apology for the Bible ;* it is a complete confutation of Paine—but that was no difficult matter . The most formidable infidel is Lessing , the author of ' Emilia Galotti . '
I ought to have written , was , for he is dead . His book is not yet translated , and is entitled , in German , * Fragments of an Anonymous Author . ' It unites the wit of Voltaire with the subtlety of Hume , and the profound erudition of our Lardner . I had some thoughts of translating it with an answer , but gave it up , lest men , whose tempers and hearts incline them to disbelief , should get hold of it ; and , though the answers are satisfactory to my own mind , they may not be equally so to the minds of others .
I suppose you have heard that I am married . I was married on the 4 th of October . I rest for all my poetical credit on the Religious Musings . Farewell ; with high esteem , yours sincerely , S . T . Coleridge .
Untitled Article
II . My much-esteemed Friend , - I truly sympathize with you in your severe loss , and pray to God that he may give you a sanctified use of your affliction . The death of a young person of high hopes and opening faculties , impresses me less gloomily than the departure of the old . To my mere natural reason ,
the former appears like a transition ; there seems an incompleteness in the life of such a person , contrary to the general order of nature ; and it make 8 the heart say , 4 this is not all . ' But when an old man sinks into the grave , we have seen the bud , blossom , and the fruit , and the unassisted mind droops in melancholy , as if the whole had come and gone . But Gixl hath been merciful to us , and strengthened our eyes through
faith , and Hope may cast her anchor in a certain bottom , and the young and old may rejoice before God and the Lamb , weeping as though they wept not , and crying in the spirit of faith , ? Art thou not from everlasting , O Lord liod , my Holy One ? We shall not die ! ' I have known affliction Yea , my friend , I have been sorely afflicted ; [ have rolled my dreary eve from earth to heaven : I found no comfort , till it pleased the
unimaginable high and lofty One , to make my heart more tender in regard of religious feelingi . My philosophical refinements , and metaphyeic * theories , lay by me in the hour of anguish as toys by the beduide of * child deadly tick . May God continue his visitations to my soul , bowing it down , till ine pride , and Laodicean self-confidence of human reason be utterly done away , and I cry with deeper and yet deeper feeling 8 * * TheMi wotd * ttruck through .
Untitled Article
654 Letters of the late S , 7 . Coleridge .
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/50/
-