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friend who had sent him a copy of the old romance Astraea : —* € Dear C— . Your books are as the gushing streams in a desertV * * <* " Rank and Talent" you shall hare , when Mrs . M *~ has done with ' em . Mary likes Mrs . Bedinfield much . For me I read nothing but Astraea ; it has turned my brain . I go about with a switch turned up at the end for a erook ; and ,
Lambs being too old , the butcher tells me , my cat follows me in a green riband . Becky * and her cousin are getting pastoral dresses , and then we shall all four go about Arcadifcing . " O cruel shepherdess ! inconstant yet fair , and more inconstant for being fair ! " Her gold ringlets fell in a disorder superior to order ! Come and join us . I am called the black shepherd . You shall be C— with a tuft . '—And what would have become of Mary and her pseudonyme budget , and where would have been the indivisible brother and sisterhood , the heart and home sharing
they had together their whole lives through , the strong affection which defied all change of time or circumstance ,- —all , save the power of the great enemy who has now separated them ? W < is he not cruel in so doing ? Would it not have been ra ^ rcy to have made them sharers in death as they had been in life ? to have
made them go hand in hand to their last quifct home together ? Coleridge , on the evening in Question , spoke of death with
fear ; not from the dread ® $ punishment , not from the shrinking from physical pain , but he said he had a horror lest * after the attempt to ' shufflfe off this mortal coil / he should yet 'be thrown back upon himself / Charles Lamb kept silence , and looked sceptical ^ and , after ^ i pause , said suddenly , One of the things that made me question the particular inspiration they ascribed to
Jesus Christ , was his ignorance of the character of Judas Iscariot . Why did not he and his disciples kick him out for a rascal , instead of receiving him as a disciple ? ' Coleridge smiled very quietly , and then spdke of some person ( name forgotten ) who had been making a comparison between himself and Wfcrdsworth as to their religious faith . ' They said , although I was an
atheist , we were upon a par , for ihht Wordsworth ' s Christianity was very like Coleridge's atheism ; and ColeridgfeV atheism was very like Wordsworth ' s Christianity . * After some time he moved round the room to read the different engravings that hung upon the walls . One , over the mantel-piece > especially interested his faney . There were only two figured iti the picture * both women .
One was of a lofty , commanding stature * with a high intellectual brow , and of an abbess-like deportment . She Was standing in grave majesty , with the finger uplifted * in the act of monition to a ybung girl besido her . The face was in profile , and somewhat severe in its expression ; but this was relieved by the richness and gr&ce of the draperies in which ahe was profusely dnvelop ^ d . * The servant .
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166 Ah Evening with Charles Lamb nnd CoteHdge .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 166, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/22/
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