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123n.On a late Connubial Rupture,179n.On an Infant who died before its Christening,287.Once a Jacobin, always a Jacobin,414.On Revisiting the Sea-Shore,361n.Onstel,97n.On the Slave Trade,43and note.Opium, C.’s early use of, and beginning of the habit,173and note,174and note,175;first recourse to it for the relief of mental distress,245n.;daily quantity reduced,413;regarded as less harmful than other stimulants,413;420;its use discontinued for a time,434,435;anguish and remorse from its abuse, 616-621, 623, 624;in order to free himself from the slavery, C. arranges to live with Mr. James Gillman as a patient, 657-659;a final effort to give up the use of it altogether, 760 and note;the habit regulated and brought under control, but never entirely done away with, 760 n., 761 n.Oporto, seen from the sea, 469, 470.Orestes, by William Sotheby,402,409,410.Original Sin, C. a believer in,242.Original Sin, Letter on, by Jeremy Taylor, 640.Origine de tous les Cultes, ou Religion universelle, by Charles François Dupuis,181and note.Origin, Nature, and Object of the New System of Education, by Andrew Bell, D. D., 581 and note, 582.Osorio, a tragedy,10n.,229and note,231,284n., 603 n.SeeRemorse.Ossian, hexameters in,398.Otter, the river,14,15.Ottery St. Mary,6-8,305n.;C. wished by his family to settle at,325;C.’s last visit to,405n.;a proposed visit to, 512, 513;745 n.Owen, William,425n.O what a loud and fearful shriek was there, a sonnet,116n.,117.Owls, care of, in Germany,293.Oxford University, C.’s feeling towards,45,72.Paignton,305n.Pain, a sonnet,174n.Pain, C. interested in,341.Pains of Sleep, The,435-437and note.Paley, William, Archdeacon of Carlisle, hisMotives of Contentment,47;hisNatural Theology,424and note;713.Palm, John Philip, his pamphlet reflecting on Napoleon leads to his trial and execution, 530 and note;C. translates his pamphlet, 530.Pantisocracy,73,79,81,82,88-91,101-103,109n.,121,122,134,135,138-141,143-147,149,317n., 748 n.Paradise Lost, by Milton, its imagery borrowed from the Scriptures,199,200.Parasite, a, 705.Parliamentary Reform, essay on, 567.Parndon House, 506 n., 507, 508.Parret, the river,165.Parties, political, in England,242.Pasquin, Antony, 603 and note.Patience,203and note.Patteson, Hon. Mr. Justice, 726 n.Paul, Charles Kegan, hisWilliam Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries,161n.,324n., 465 n.Pauper’s Funeral, by Robert Southey,108and note,109.Peace and Union, by William Friend,24n.Pearce, Dr., Master of Jesus College,23,24,65,70-72.Pedlar, The, former title of Wordsworth’sExcursion,337and note.Peel, Sir Robert, 689 n.Penche, M. de la,49.Penmaen Mawr, C.’s ascent of,81n.Penn, William, 539.Pennington, W., 541, 542 n., 544.Penrith,420,421, 547, 548, 575 n.Penruddock,420,421.Perceval, Rt. Hon. Spencer, assassination of, 597, 598 and note.Perdita,seeRobinson, Mrs. Mary.Peripatetic, The, or Sketches of the Heart, of Nature, and of Society, by John Thelwall,166and note.Perry, James,114.Perspiration. A Travelling Eclogue,73.Peterloo, 702 n.Philip Van Artevelde, by Sir Henry Taylor, 774 and note.Phillips, Elizabeth (C.’s half sister),54n.Phillips, Sir Richard,317and note,325,327.Phillips, Thomas, R. A., 699;his two portraits of C., 699 and note, 700, 740;his portrait of William Hart Coleridge, Bishop of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, 740 and note.Philological Museum, 733 n.Philosophy, 648-650;German, 681-683;C.’s lectures on the History of, 698 and note.SeeMetaphysicsandReligion.Pickering, W., 579 n.Picture, The: or The Lover’s Resolution,405n., 620 n.Pinney, Mr., of Bristol,163n.;his estate in the West Indies,360,361.Pipes, meerschaum,277.Pisa, C.’s stay at, 499 n., 500 n.;his account of, 500 n.Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, C.’s report in theMorning Postof his speech on the continuance of the war with France,327and note;proposed articles on, 505;C.’s detestation of, 535 and note;629 and note.Pixies’ Parlour, The,222.Plampin, J.,70and note.Plato, hisgorgeousnonsense,211;his theology,406.Playing-cards, German,263.Pleasure, intoxicating power of,370.Plinlimmon, C.’s ascent of,81n.Plot Discovered, The,156and note.Poems by Robert Lovell and Robert Southey of Balliol College, Bath,107n.Poems and fragments of poems introduced by C. into his letters,28,35,36,51,52,54,56,73,75,77,83,92,94,98,100,111-113,207,212,225,355,379-384,388,389,397,404,412,435-437, 553, 609, 620, 642, 646, 702, 770, 771.Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer, by Charles Lloyd,206and note.Poetical Character, Ode on the, by Collins,196.Poetry, Concerning, a proposed book,347,386,387.Poetry, C. proposes to write an essay on,338,347,386,387;Greek and Hebrew,405,406.Poetry, C.’s, not obscure or mystical,194,195.Poland,329.Political parties in England,242.Politics,240-243, 546, 550, 553, 574, 702, 712, 713, 757.SeeDemocracy,Pantisocracy,Republicanism.Poole, Richard,249.Poole, Mrs. Richard,248.Poole, Thomas, contributes toThe Watchman,155;collects a testimonial in the form of an annuity of £35 or £40 for C.,158n.;C.’s gratitude,158,159;C. proposes to visit,159;C.’s affection for,168,210,258, 609, 610, 753;C. proposes to visit him with Charles Lloyd,170;C.’s happiness at the prospect of living near,173;his connection with C.’s removal to Nether Stowey,183-193,208-210;213,219,220;his opinion of Wordsworth,221;232and note,233,239,257,258,260,282n.,289;effects a reconciliation between C. and Southey,390;308,319;C.’s reasons for not naming his third son after,344;death of his mother,364;396,437n.;nobly employed, 453;his rectitude and simplicity of heart, 454;456 n.;his forgetfulness, 460;515, 523;extract from a letter from C., 533 n.;a visit to Grasmere proposed, 545;his narrative of John Walford, 553 and note;C. complains of unkindness from, 609, 610;639 n., 657;meets C. at Samuel Purkis’s, Brentford, 673;extract from a letter from C. about Samuel Purkis, 673 n.;autobiographical letters from C.,3-18;other letters from C.,136,155,158,168,172,176,183-187,208,248,249,258,267,282,305,335,343,348,350,364, 452, 454, 541, 544, 550, 556, 609, 673, 753.Poole, Thomas, and his Friends, by Mrs. Henry Sandford,158n.,165n.,170n.,183n.,232n.,234n.,258,267n.,282n.,391n.,335n., 456 n., 533 n., 553 n., 673 n., 676 n.Poole, William,176.Pope, the, C. leaves Rome at a warning from, 498 n.Pope, Alexander, hisEssay on Man, 648;a favorite walk of, 671.Pople, Mr., publisher of C.’s tragedy,Remorse, 602.Porson, Mr.,114,115.Portinscale,393and note.Portraits of C., crayon sketch by Dawe, 572 and note;full-length portrait by Allston begun at Rome, 572 and note;portrait by Allston taken at Bristol, 572 n.;pencil sketch by Leslie, 695 n.;two portraits by Thomas Phillips, 699 and note, 700, 740;Wyville’s proofs, 770.Portugal, C. on Southey’s proposed history of,387,388,423;the coast of, 469-471, 473.Possessive case, Moore’s misuse of the, 672.Post, Morning,310;C. writing for,320and note,324,326,327and note,329and note;331,335n.,337,376,378n.,379n.,398,404n.,405,414,423, 455 n.;Napoleon’s animosity aroused by C.’s articles in, 498 n.;its notice of C.’s tragedy,Remorse, 603 n.Postage, rates too high,345.Posthumous Fame,29n.Potter, Mr.,97and note,106.Poverty, in England,353,354;blessings of,364.Pratt,321.Prelude, The, by Wordsworth, a reference to C. in, 486 n.;C.’s linesTo William Wordsworthafter hearing him recite, 641, 644, 646, 647 and note;C.’s admiration of, 645, 647 n.Pride,149.Priestley, Joseph, C.’s sonnet to,116and note;his doctrine as to the future existence of infants,286.Progress of Liberty, The,296.Prometheus of Æschylus, Essay on the, 740 and note.Property, to be modified by the predominance of intellect,323.Pseudonym, Ἔστησε,398;its meaning,407and note,408.Public Characters for 1799-1800, published by Richard Phillips,317n.Puff and Slander, projected satires, 630 and notes, 631 n.Purkis, Samuel,326, 673 n.Quack medicine, a German,264.Quaker Family, Records of a, by Anne Ogden Boyce, 538 n.Quaker girl, inelegant remark of a little,362,368.Quakerism,415;C.’s belief in the essentials of, 539-541;C.’s definition of, 556.Quakers, as subscribers toThe Friend, 556, 557.Quakers and Unitarians, the only Christians,415.Quantocks, the,405n.Quarterly Review, The, 606;its review ofThe Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, 637 and note, 667;reëchoes C.’s praise of Cary’s Dante, 677 n.;its attitude towards C., 697, 723;John Taylor Coleridge editor of, 736 and notes, 737.Rabbinical Tales, 667 and note, 669.Racedown, C.’s visit to Wordsworth at,163n.,220and note,221.Race of Banquo, The, by Southey,92and note.Rae, Mr., an actor, 611, 667.Rainbow, The, by Southey,108and note.Ramsgate, 700, 722, 729-731, 742-744.Ratzeburg,257;C.’s stay in,262-278;the Amtmann of,264,268,271;description of,273-277;C. leaves,278;292-294.“Raw Head” and “Bloody Bones,”45.Reading,seeBooks.Reading, Berkshire,66,67.Reason and understanding, the distinction between, 712, 713.Recluse, The, a projected poem by Wordsworth of whichThe Excursion(q. v.) was to form the second part and to whichThe Prelude(q. v.) was to be an introduction, C.’s hopes for, 646, 647 and note, 648-650.Recollections of a Late Royal Academician, by Charles Lamb, 572 n.Records of a Quaker Family, by Anne Ogden Boyce, 538 n.Redcliff,144.Redcliff Hill,154.Reflection, Aids to, 688 n.Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement, 606 n.Reform Bill, 760, 762.Reich, Dr., 734, 736.Rejected Addresses, by Horace and James Smith, 606.Religion, beliefs and doubts of C. in regard to,64,68,69,88,105,106,127,135,152,153,159-161,167,171,172,198-205,210,211,228,229,235n.,242,247,248,285,286,342,364,365,407,414,415,444, 538-541, 617-620, 624, 676, 688, 694, 706-712, 746-748, 750, 754, 758-760, 762, 763, 771, 775, 776.Religious Musings,239.Reminiscences of Cambridge, by Henry Gunning,24n.,363n.Reminiscences of Coleridge and Southey, by Cottle,268n.,269n.,417, 456 n., 617 n.Remorse, C.’s definition of, 607.Remorse, A Tragedy(Osoriorewritten), rehearsal of, 600;has a brief spell of success, 600 n., 602, 604, 610, 611;business arrangements as to its publication, 602;press notices of, 603 and note, 604;William Gifford’s criticism of, 605;the underlying principle of the plot of, 607, 608;wretchedly acted, 608, 611;metres of, 608;lack of pathos in, 608;plagiarisms in, 608;labors occasioned to C. by its production and success, 610;financial success of, 611;Quarterly Review’scriticism of, 630;696.Repentance preached by the Christian religion,201.Reporting the debates for theMorning Post,324,326,327.Republicanism,72,79-81,243.SeeDemocracy,Pantisocracy.Retrospect, The, by Robert Southey,107and note.Revelation, 676.Reynell, Richard, 497 and note.Rheumatism, C.’s sufferings from,174n.,193,209,307,308,432,433.Rhine, the, 751.Richards, George,41and note.Richardson, Mrs.,145.Richter, Jean Paul, hisVorschule der Aisthetik, 683 and note.Rickman, John, 456 n., 459, 462, 542, 599.Ridgeway and Symonds, publishers, 638 n.Robbers, The, by Schiller,96and note,97,221.Roberts, Margaret,358n.Robespierre, Maximilian Marie Isidore,203n.,329n.Robespierre, The Fall of,85and note,87,93,104and notes.Robinson, Frederick John (afterwards Earl of Ripon), his Corn Bill, 643 and note.Robinson, Henry Crabb,225n., 593, 599, 670 n.;in old age, 671 n.;reads William Blake’s poems to Wordsworth, 686 n.;extract from a letter from C. to, 689 n.;hisDiary,225n., 575 n., 591 n., 595 n., 686 n., 689 n.;letter from C., 671.Robinson, Mrs. Mary (“Perdita”), contributes poems to theAnnual Anthology,322and note;herHaunted Beach,331,332;her ear for metre,332.Roman Catholicism in Germany,291,292.Romance, Ode to, by Southey,107and note.Rome, C.’s flight from, 498 n.;501, 502.Rosamund, Miss, by Southey,108and note.Rosamund to Henry; written after she had taken the veil, by Southey,108n.Roscoe, William,359and note.Rose, Sir George, 456 and note.Rose, The,54and note.Rose, W., 542.Roskilly, Rev. Mr.,267n.,270;letter from C.,267.Ross,77.Ross, the Man of,77, 651 n.Rossetti, Gabriele, 731 and note, 732, 733.Rough, Sergeant,225and note.Royal Institution, C. obtains a lectureship at the, 506 n., 507, 508, 511;an outline of proposed lectures at the, 515, 516, 522;C.’s lectures at the, 525.Royal Society of Literature, the, Basil Montagu’s endeavors to secure for C. an associateship of, 726, 727;C. an associate of, 728;731;an essay for, 737, 738;C. reads anEssay on the Prometheus of Æschylusbefore, 739, 740.Rulers, always as bad as they dare to be,240.Rush, Sir William,368.Rushiford,358.Russell, Mr., of Exeter, C.’s fellow-traveller, 498 n., 500 and note.Rustats,24,43.Ruth, by Wordsworth,387.Ruthin,78.St. Albyn, Mrs., the owner of Alfoxden,232n.St. Augustine,375.St. Bees,392,393.St. Blasius,292.St. Clear,411,412.St. Lawrence, near Maldon, description of, 690-692.St. Leon, by Godwin, the copyright sold for £400,324,325.St. Nevis,360,361.St. Paul’sEpistle to the Hebrews,200.


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