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Madoc, by Southey, C. urges its completion and publication, 314,467;357;C.’s enthusiasm for, 388, 489, 490;a divine passage of, 463 and note.Mad Ox, The, 219 n., 327.Magee, William, D. D.,761n.Magnum Opus.SeeChristianity, the one true Philosophy.Maid of Orleans, 239.Malta, C. plans a trip to,457,458;the voyage to,469-481;sojourn at,481-484,487-497;army affairs at,554,555.Maltese, the,483and note,484and note.Maltese, Regiment, the,554,555.Malvern Hills, by Joseph Cottle, 358.Manchester Massacre, the,702n.Manchineel, 223 n.Marburg, 291.Margarot, 166, 167 n.Markes, Rev. Mr., 310.Marriage as a means of ensuring the nature and education of children, 216, 217.Marsh, Herbert, Bishop of Peterborough, his lecture on the authenticity and credibility of the books collected in the New Testament,707,708.Martin, Rev. H., 74 n., 81 n.Mary, the Maid of the Inn, by Southey, 223.Massena, Marshal, defeats the Russians at Zurich, 308 and note.Masy, Mr., 40.Mathews, Charles, C. hears and sees his entertainment,At Home,704,705;letter from C.,621.Mattathias, The Death of, by Robert Southey, 108 and note.Maurice, Rev. John Frederick Dennison,771n.Maxwell, Captain, of the Royal Artillery,493,495,496.McKinnon, General, 309 n.Medea, a subject for a tragedy, 399.Meditation, C.’s habits of,658.Medwin, Capt. Thomas, hisConversations of Lord Byron,735and note.Meerschaum pipes, 277.Melancholy, a Fragment, 396 and note, 397.Memory of childhood in old age, 428.Mendelssohn, Moses, 203 n., 204 n.Men of the Time, 317 n.Merry, Robert, 86 n.Messina,485,486.Metaphysics, 102, 347-352;C. proposes to write a book on Locke, Hobbes, and Hume, 349, 350;in poetry, 372;effect of the study of, 388;C.’s projected great work on,632and note,633;of the German philosophers,681-683,735;712,713.SeeChristianity, the One True Philosophy,Philosophy,Religion.Meteyard, Eliza, herGroup of Englishmen, 269 n., 308 n.Method, Essay on the Science of,681and note.Methuen, Rev. T. A.,652and note.Microcosm, 43 and note.Middleton, H. F. (afterwards Bishop of Calcutta), 23, 25, 32, 33.Milman, Henry Hart,737and note.Milton, John, 164, 197 and note;a sublimer poet than Homer or Virgil, 199, 200;the imagery inParadise Lostborrowed from the Scriptures, 199, 200;hisAccidence, 331;on poetry, 387;his platonizing spirit, 406, 407;678,734.Milton, Lord,567and note.MindversusNature, in youth and later life,742,743.Minor Poems, 317 n.Miscellanies, Æsthetic and Literary,711n.Miss Rosamond, by Southey, 108 and note.Mitford, Mary Russell, 63 n.Molly, 11.Monarchy likened to a cockatrice, 73.Monday’s Beard, On Mrs., 9 n.Money, Rev. William,651n.;letter from C.,651.Monody on the Death of Chatterton, 110 n., 158 n.,620n.Monologue to a Young Jackass in Jesus Piece, 119 n.Monopolists, 335 n.Montagu, Basil, 363 n.,511n.;causes a misunderstanding between C. and Wordsworth,578,586-591,593,599,612;endeavours to have an associateship of the Royal Society of Literature conferred on C.,726,727;his efforts successful,728;749.Montagu, Mrs. Basil, her connection with the quarrel between C. and Wordsworth,588,589,591,599.Monthly Magazine, the, 179 and note, 185, 197, 215, 251 n., 310, 317.Moore, Thomas, hisLalla Rookh,672;his misuse of the possessive case,672.Moors, C.’s opinion of, 478.Morality and religion,676.Moreau, Jean Victor,449and note.Morgan, Mrs., 145, 148.Morgan, John James,524,526;a faithful and zealous friend,580;C. confides the news of his quarrel with Wordsworth to,591,592;596,650,665;letter from C.,575.Morgan, Mrs. John James, C.’s affection for,565;578,600,618,650,722n.;letter from C.,524.Morgan family, the (J. J. Morgan, his wife, and his wife’s sister, Miss Charlotte Brent), C.’s feelings of affection, esteem, and gratitude towards,519,520,524-526,565;C. visits,566-575and note,579-622;585;C. confides the news of his quarrel with Wordsworth to,591,592;C. regards as his saviours,592;600n.;with C. at Calne,641-653;their faithful devotion to C.,657,722n.;letters from C.,519,524,564.Mortimer, John Hamilton, 373 and note.Motion of Contentment, by Archdeacon Paley, 47.Motley, J. C.,467-469,475.Mountains, of Portugal,470,473;about Gibraltar,478.Mumps, the,545and note.Murray, John,581;proposes to publish a translation ofFaust,624-626;his connection with the publication ofZapolya,666and note,667-669;offers C. two hundred guineas for a volume of specimens of Rabbinical wisdom,667n.;699n.;proposal from C. to compile a volume of selections from Archbishop Leighton,717-720;723;his proposal to publish an edition of C.’s poems,787;letters from C.,624,665,717.Murray, John, Memoirs of,624n.,666n.Music, 49.Myrtle, praise of the,745,746.Mythology, Greek and Roman, contrasted with Christianity, 199, 200.Nanny, 260, 295.Naples,486,502.Napoleon, 308, 327 n., 329 and note;his animosity against C.,498n.;530n.;C.’s cartoon and lines on,642.Napoleon Bonaparte, Life of, by Sir Walter Scott, 174 n.Natural Theology, by William Paley, 424 n., 425 n.Nature, her influence on the passions, 243, 244;Mind and, two rival artists,742,743.Natur-philosophen, C. on the,682,683.Navigation and Discovery, The Spirit of, by William Lisle Bowles, 403 and note.Necessitarianism, the sophistry of,454.Neighbours, 186.Nelson, Lady,637.Nelson, Lord,637and note.Nesbitt, Fanny, C.’s poem to, 56, 57.Netherlands, the,751.Nether Stowey, 165 and note;C. proposes to move to, 184-194;arrangements for moving to, 209;settled at, 213;C.’s description of his place at, 213;Thelwall urged not to settle at, 232-234;the curate-in-charge of, 267 n.;297, 325, 366;C.’s last visit to, 405 n.;497n.Neuralgia, a severe attack of, 173-177.Newcome’s (Mr.) School, 7, 25 n.Newlands, 393 and note, 411,725.New Monthly Magazine, 257.Newspapers, freshness necessary for,568.New Testament, the, Bishop March’s lecture on the authenticity and credibility of the books collected in,707,708.Newton, Mr., 48.Newton, Mrs., sister of Thomas Chatterton, 221, 222.Newton, Sir Isaac, 352.Nightingale, The, a Conversational Poem, 296 n.Ninathoma, The Complaint of, 51.Nixon, Miss Eliza, unpublished lines of C. to,773n.,774n.;letter from C.,773.Nobs, Dr. Daniel Dove’s horse, inThe Doctor,583and note,584.No more the visionary soul shall dwell, 109 and note, 208 n.Nordhausen, 273.Northcote, Sir Stafford, 15 and note.Northmore, Thomas, C. dines with, 306, 307;an offensive character to the aristocrats, 310.North Wales, C.’s tour of, 72-81.Notes on Hamlet,684n.Notes on Noble’s Appeal,684n.Notes Theological and Political,684n.,761n.Nottingham, 153, 154, 216.Novi, Suwarrow’s victory at, 307 and note.Nuremberg,555.Objective, different meanings of the term,755.Observations on Egypt,486n.Ocean, the, by night, 260.Ode in the manner of Anacreon, An, 35.Ode on the Poetical Character, by William Collins, 196.Odes to Great People, by Thomas Hood, 250 n.Ode to Dejection, 378 and note, 379 and note, 380-384, 405 n.Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 320 and note, 330.Ode to Lycon, by Robert Southey, 107 n., 108.Ode to Romance, by Robert Southey, 107 and note.Ode to the Departing Year, 212 n.;C.’s reply to Thelwall’s criticisms on, 218 and note;221.Ode to the Duchess, 320 and note, 330.O gentle look, that didst my soul beguile, a sonnet, 111, 112 and note.Ogle, Captain, 63 and note.Ogle, Lieutenant, 374 n.Ogle, Dr. Newton, Dean of Westminster, his Latin Iambics, 374 and note.Oken, Lorenz, hisNatural History,736.Old Man in the Snow, 110 and note.Omniana, by C. and Southey, 9 n.,554n.,718n.On a Discovery made too late, 92 and note, 123 n.On a late Connubial Rupture, 179 n.On an Infant who died before its Christening, 287.Once a Jacobin, always a Jacobin, 414.On Revisiting the Sea-Shore, 361 n.Onstel, 97 n.On the Slave Trade, 43 and note.Opium, C.’s early use of, and beginning of the habit, 173 and note, 174 and note, 175;first recourse to it for the relief of mental distress, 245 n.;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,760and note;the habit regulated and brought under control, but never entirely done away with,760n.,761n.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, 181 and note.Origin, Nature, and Object of the New System of Education, by Andrew Bell, D. D.,581and note,582.Osorio, a tragedy, 10 n., 229 and note, 231, 284 n.,603n.SeeRemorse.Ossian, hexameters in, 398.Otter, the river, 14, 15.Ottery St. Mary, 6-8, 305 n.;C. wished by his family to settle at, 325;C.’s last visit to, 405 n.;a proposed visit to,512,513;745n.Owen, William, 425 n.O what a loud and fearful shriek was there, a sonnet, 116 n., 117.Owls, care of, in Germany, 293.Oxford University, C.’s feeling towards, 45, 72.Paignton, 305 n.Pain, a sonnet, 174 n.Pain, C. interested in, 341.Pains of Sleep, The, 435-437 and note.Paley, William, Archdeacon of Carlisle, hisMotives of Contentment, 47;hisNatural Theology, 424 and note;713.Palm, John Philip, his pamphlet reflecting on Napoleon leads to his trial and execution,530and note;C. translates his pamphlet,530.Pantisocracy, 73, 79, 81, 82, 88-91, 101-103, 109 n., 121, 122, 134, 135, 138-141, 143-147, 149, 317 n.,748n.Paradise Lost, by Milton, its imagery borrowed from the Scriptures, 199, 200.Parasite, a,705.Parliamentary Reform, essay on,567.Parndon House,506n.,507,508.Parret, the river, 165.Parties, political, in England, 242.Pasquin, Antony,603and note.Patience, 203 and note.Patteson, Hon. Mr. Justice,726n.Paul, Charles Kegan, hisWilliam Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, 161 n., 324 n.,465n.Pauper’s Funeral, by Robert Southey, 108 and note, 109.Peace and Union, by William Friend, 24 n.Pearce, Dr., Master of Jesus College, 23, 24, 65, 70-72.Pedlar, The, former title of Wordsworth’sExcursion, 337 and note.Peel, Sir Robert,689n.Penche, M. de la, 49.Penmaen Mawr, C.’s ascent of, 81 n.Penn, William,539.Pennington, W.,541,542n.,544.Penrith, 420, 421,547,548,575n.Penruddock, 420, 421.Perceval, Rt. Hon. Spencer, assassination of,597,598and note.Perdita,seeRobinson, Mrs. Mary.Peripatetic, The, or Sketches of the Heart, of Nature, and of Society, by John Thelwall, 166 and note.Perry, James, 114.Perspiration. A Travelling Eclogue, 73.Peterloo,702n.Philip Van Artevelde, by Sir Henry Taylor,774and note.Phillips, Elizabeth (C.’s half sister), 54 n.Phillips, Sir Richard, 317 and note, 325, 327.Phillips, Thomas, R. A.,699;his two portraits of C.,699and note,700,740;his portrait of William Hart Coleridge, Bishop of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands,740and note.Philological Museum,733n.Philosophy,648-650;German,681-683C.’s lectures on the History of,698and note.SeeMetaphysicsandReligion.Pickering, W.,579n.Picture, The: or The Lover’s Resolution, 405 n.,620n.Pinney, Mr., of Bristol, 163 n.;his estate in the West Indies, 360, 361.Pipes, meerschaum, 277.Pisa, C.’s stay at,499n.,500n.;his account of,500n.Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, C.’s report in theMorning Postof his speech on the continuance of the war with France, 327 and note;proposed articles on,505;C.’s detestation of,535and note;629and note.Pixies’ Parlour, The, 222.Plampin, J., 70 and note.Plato, hisgorgeousnonsense, 211;his theology, 406.Playing-cards, German, 263.Pleasure, intoxicating power of, 370.Plinlimmon, C.’s ascent of, 81 n.Plot Discovered, The, 156 and note.Poems by Robert Lovell and Robert Southey of Balliol College, Bath, 107 n.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, 206 and 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., 158 n.;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;232 and note, 233, 239, 257, 258, 260, 282 n., 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, 437 n.;nobly employed,453;his rectitude and simplicity of heart,454;456n.;his forgetfulness,460;515,523;extract from a letter from C.,533n.;a visit to Grasmere proposed,545;his narrative of John Walford,553and note;C. complains of unkindness from,609,610;639n.,657;meets C. at Samuel Purkis’s, Brentford,673;extract from a letter from C. about Samuel Purkis,673n.;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, 158 n., 165 n., 170 n., 183 n., 232 n., 234 n., 258, 267 n., 282 n., 391 n., 335 n.,456n.,533n.,553n.,673n.,676n.Poole, William, 176.Pope, the, C. leaves Rome at a warning from,498n.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, 393 and note.Portraits of C., crayon sketch by Dawe,572and note;full-length portrait by Allston begun at Rome,572and note;portrait by Allston taken at Bristol,572n.;pencil sketch by Leslie,695n.;two portraits by Thomas Phillips,699and 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, 320 and note, 324, 326, 327 and note, 329 and note;331, 335 n., 337, 376, 378 n., 379 n., 398, 404 n., 405, 414, 423,455n.;Napoleon’s animosity aroused by C.’s articles in,498n.;its notice of C.’s tragedy,Remorse,603n.Postage, rates too high, 345.Posthumous Fame, 29 n.Potter, Mr., 97 and note, 106.Poverty, in England, 353, 354;blessings of, 364.Pratt, 321.Prelude, The, by Wordsworth, a reference to C. in,486n.;C.’s linesTo William Wordsworthafter hearing him recite,641,644,646,647and note;C.’s admiration of,645,647n.Pride, 149.Priestley, Joseph, C.’s sonnet to, 116 and note;his doctrine as to the future existence of infants, 286.Progress of Liberty, The, 296.Prometheus of Æschylus, Essay on the,740and note.Property, to be modified by the predominance of intellect, 323.Pseudonym, Ἔστησε, 398;its meaning, 407 and note, 408.Public Characters for 1799-1800, published by Richard Phillips, 317 n.Puff and Slander, projected satires,630and notes,631n.Purkis, Samuel, 326,673n.Quack medicine, a German, 264.Quaker Family, Records of a, by Anne Ogden Boyce,538n.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, 405 n.Quarterly Review, The,606;its review ofThe Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton,637and note,667;reëchoes C.’s praise of Cary’s Dante,677n.;its attitude towards C.,697,723;John Taylor Coleridge editor of,736and notes,737.


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