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Rabbinical Tales,667and note,669.Racedown, C.’s visit to Wordsworth at, 163 n., 220 and note, 221.Race of Banquo, The, by Southey, 92 and note.Rae, Mr., an actor,611,667.Rainbow, The, by Southey, 108 and 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,646,647and note,648-650.Recollections of a Late Royal Academician, by Charles Lamb,572n.Records of a Quaker Family, by Anne Ogden Boyce,538n.Redcliff, 144.Redcliff Hill, 154.Reflection, Aids to,688n.Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement,606n.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, 235 n., 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, 24 n., 363 n.Reminiscences of Coleridge and Southey, by Cottle, 268 n., 269 n., 417,456n.,617n.Remorse, C.’s definition of,607.Remorse, A Tragedy(Osoriorewritten), rehearsal of,600;has a brief spell of success,600n.,602,604,610,611;business arrangements as to its publication,602;press notices of,603and 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, 107 and note.Revelation,676.Reynell, Richard,497and note.Rheumatism, C.’s sufferings from, 174 n., 193, 209, 307, 308, 432, 433.Rhine, the,751.Richards, George, 41 and note.Richardson, Mrs., 145.Richter, Jean Paul, hisVorschule der Aisthetik,683and note.Rickman, John,456n.,459,462,542,599.Ridgeway and Symonds, publishers,638n.Robbers, The, by Schiller, 96 and note, 97, 221.Roberts, Margaret, 358 n.Robespierre, Maximilian Marie Isidore, 203 n., 329 n.Robespierre, The Fall of, 85 and note, 87, 93, 104 and notes.Robinson, Frederick John (afterwards Earl of Ripon), his Corn Bill,643and note.Robinson, Henry Crabb, 225 n.,593,599,670n.;in old age,671n.;reads William Blake’s poems to Wordsworth,686n.;extract from a letter from C. to,689n.;hisDiary, 225 n.,575n.,591n.,595n.,686n.,689n.;letter from C.,671.Robinson, Mrs. Mary (“Perdita”), contributes poems to theAnnual Anthology, 322 and note;herHaunted Beach, 331, 332;her ear for metre, 332.Roman Catholicism in Germany, 291, 292.Romance, Ode to, by Southey, 107 and note.Rome, C.’s flight from,498n.;501,502.Rosamund, Miss, by Southey, 108 and note.Rosamund to Henry; written after she had taken the veil, by Southey, 108 n.Roscoe, William, 359 and note.Rose, Sir George,456and note.Rose, The, 54 and note.Rose, W.,542.Roskilly, Rev. Mr., 267 n., 270;letter from C., 267.Ross, 77.Ross, the Man of, 77,651n.Rossetti, Gabriele,731and note,732,733.Rough, Sergeant, 225 and note.Royal Institution, C. obtains a lectureship at the,506n.,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,498n.,500and note.Rustats, 24, 43.Ruth, by Wordsworth, 387.Ruthin, 78.St. Albyn, Mrs., the owner of Alfoxden, 232 n.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.Salernitanus,566and note.Salisbury, 53-55.Samuel, C.’s dislike of the name,470,471.Sandford, Mrs. Henry, 183 n.;herThomas Poole and his Friends, 158 n., 165 n., 170 n., 183 n., 232 n., 234 n., 258, 267 n., 282 n., 319 n., 335 n.,456n.,533n.,553n.,673n.,676n.Saturday Club, the, at Göttingen, 281.Satyrane’s Letters, 257, 274 n.,558.Savage, Mr.,534.Savory, Mr., 316.Scafell, 393, 394;in a thunderstorm on, 400 and note;view from the summit of, 400, 401;suggests theHymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni, 404 and note, 405 and note.Scale Force, 375.Scarborough, 361-363.Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, the philosophy of,683,735.Schiller, hisRobbers, 96 and note, 97, 221;C. translates manuscript plays of, 331;C.’s translation of hisWallenstein, 403,608.Scholarship examinations, 24, 43, 45 and note, 46.Schöning, Maria Eleanora, the story of,555and note,556.Scoope, Emanuel, second Viscount Howe, 262 n.Scotland, C.’s tour in, 431-441;the four most wonderful sights in, 439, 440.Scott, an attorney, his manner of revenging himself on C., 310, 311.Scott, Sir Walter, hisLife of Napoleon Bonaparte, 174 n.;his house in Edinburgh, 439;takes Hartley C. to the Tower,511n.;his offer to use his influence to get a place for Southey on the staff of theEdinburgh Review,522and note,522;hisLay of the Last Minstrel,523;605,694;hisAntiquary,736and note.Sea-bathing, 361 n., 362 and note.Seasickness, no sympathy for,743,744.Sermoni propriora,606and note.Shad, 82, 89, 96.Shaftesbury, Lord,689n.Shakespeare, Lectures on,557n.Shakespeare and other Dramatists, Lectures on,756n.Sharp, Richard,447n.;letter from C.,447.Shepherds, German, 293.Sheridan, R. B., Esq., To, 116 n., 118.Shrewsbury, C. offered the Unitarian pastorate at, 235 and note, 236.Sibylline Leaves, 178 n., 378 n., 379 n., 404 n.;C. ill-used by the printer of,673,674;678,770.Sicily, C. plans to visit,457,458;C.’s first tour in,485and note,486and note,487;523.Siddons, Mrs., 50.Sieyès, Abbé, 329 and note.Sigh, The, 100 and note.Simplicity, Sonnet to, 251 and note.Sin, original, C. a believer in, 242.Sincerity, regarded by Dr. Darwin as vicious, 161.Sixteen Sonnets, by Bampfylde, 369 n.Skiddaw, 335, 336;sunset over, 384.Skiddaw Forest, 376 n.Slavery, question of its introduction into the proposed pantisocratic colony, 89, 90, 95, 96.Slave Trade, History of the Abolition of the, by Thomas Clarkson, C.’s review of,527and note,528-530,535,536.Slave Trade, On the, 43 and note.Slee, Miss, 362, 363.Sleep, C.’s sufferings in, 435, 440, 441,447.Smerdon, Mrs., 21, 22.Smerdon, Rev. Mr., Vicar of Ottery, 22, 106 and note.Smith, Charlotte, 326.Smith, Horace and James, theirRejected Addresses,606.Smith, James,704.Smith, Raphael,701n.Smith, Robert Percy (Bobus), 43 and note.Smith, William, M. P.,506n.,507and note.Snuff,691,692and note.Social Life at the English Universities, by Christopher Wordsworth, 225 n.Something Childish, but Very Natural, quoted, 294.Song, 100.Songs of the Pixies, 222.Sonnet, an anonymous, 177, 178.Sonnet composed on a journey homeward, the author having received intelligence of the birth of a son, 194 and note, 195.Sonnets, 111, 112, and note;to Priestley, 116 and note;to Kosciusko, 116 n., 117;to Godwin, 116 n., 117;to Sheridan, 116 n., 117, 118;to Burke, 116 n., 118;to Southey, 116 n., 120;a selection of, privately printed by C., 177, 206 and note;by “Nehemiah Higginbottom,” 251 n.Sonnets, Sixteen, by Bampfylde, 309 n.Sonnet to Simplicity, 251 and note.Sonnet to the Author of the Robbers, 96 n.Sorrel, James, 21.Sotheby, William, C. translates Gesner’sErste Schifferat his instance, 369, 371, 372, 376-378, 397, 402, 403;his translation of the Georgics of Virgil, 375;hisPoems, 375;hisNetley Abbey, 396;hisWelsh Tour, 396;hisOrestes, 402, 409, 410;proposes a fine edition ofChristabel, 421, 422;492,579,595n.,604,605;letters from C., 369, 376, 396-408.Sotheby, Mrs. William, 369, 375, 378.Soul and body,708,709.South Devon, 305 n.Southey, Lieutenant,563.Southey, Bertha, daughter of Robert S., born,546,547and note,578.Southey, Catharine, daughter of Robert S.,578.Southey, Rev. Charles Cuthbert, hisLife and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 308 n., 309 n., 327 n., 329 n., 384 n., 395 n., 400 n., 425 n.,488n.,521n.,584n.,748n.;on the date of composition ofThe Doctor,583n.Southey, Edith, daughter of Robert S.,578.Southey, Dr. Henry,615and note.Southey, Herbert, son of Robert S.,578;his nicknames,583n.Southey, Margaret, daughter of Robert S., born, 394 n., 395 n.;dies, 435 n.Southey, Mrs. Margaret, mother of Robert S., 138, 147.Southey, Robert, his and C.’sOmniana, 9 n.,554n.,718n.;hisBotany Bay Eclogues, 76 n., 116;proposed emigration to America with a colony of pantisocrats, 81, 82, 89-91, 95, 96, 98, 101-103;his sonnets, 82, 83, 92, 108;his connection with C.’s engagement to Miss Sarah Fricker, 84-86, 126;hisRace of Banquo, 92 and note;97 n.;hisRetrospect, 107 and note;hisOde to Romance, 107 and note;hisOde to Lycon, 107 n., 108;hisDeath of Mattathias, 108 and note;his sonnets,To Valentine,The Fire,The Rainbow, 108 and notes;hisRosamund to Henry, 108 and notes;hisPauper’s Funeral, 108 and note, 109;hisChapel Bell, 110 and note;C. prophesies fame for, 110;hisElegy, 115;C.’s sonnet to, 116 n., 120;lines to Godwin, 120;suggestion that the proposed colony of pantisocrats be founded in Wales, 121, 122;his sonnet,Hold your mad hands!, 127 and note;his abandonment of pantisocracy causes a serious rupture with C., 134-151;marries Edith Fricker, 137 n.;hisJoan of Arc, 141, 149, 178 and note, 210, 319;163 n.;the poet for the patriot, 178;198 and note;his verses to a college cat, 207;C. compares his poetry with his own, 210;personal relations with C. after the partial reconciliation, 210, 211;his exertions in aid of Chatterton’s sister, 221, 222;hisMary the Maid of the Inn, 223;C.’sSonnet to Simplicitynot written with reference to, 251 and note;a more complete reconciliation with C., 303, 304;visits C. at Stowey with his wife, 304;C., with his wife and child, visits him at Exeter, 305 and note;accompanies C. on a walking tour in Dartmoor, 305 and note;hisSpecimens of the Later English Poets, 309 n.;hisMadoc, 314, 357, 388,463and note,467,489,490;hisThalaba the Destroyer, 314, 319, 324, 357,684;out of health, 314;C. suggests his removing to London, 315;George Dyer’s article on, 317 and note;The Devil’s Thoughts, written in collaboration with C., 318;320 n.;thinks of going abroad for his health, 326, 329, 360, 361;an advocate of the establishment of Protestant orders of Sisters of Mercy, 327 n.;proposes the establishment of a magazine with signed articles, 328 n.;extract from a letter to C. on the condition of France, 329 n.;C. begs him to make his home at Greta Hall, 354-356, 362, 391, 392, 394, 395;367, 379 n.;his proposed history of Portugal, 387, 388, 423;secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for Ireland for a short time, 390 and note;birth of his first child, Margaret, 394 n., 395 n.;his admiration of Bowles and its effect on his poems, 396;400 n.;his prose style, 423;his proposed bibliographical work, 428-430;makes a visit to Greta Hall which proves permanent, 435;death of his little daughter, Margaret, 435 and note, 437;his first impressions of Edinburgh, 438 n.;442;on Hartley and Derwent Coleridge, 443;460,463,468,484,488n.;poverty,490;hisWat Tyler,507n.;declines an offer from Scott to secure him a place on the staff of theEdinburgh Review,521and note;542n.;extract from a letter to J. N. White,545n.;on the mumps,545n.;546;birth of his daughter Bertha,546,547and note;548;corrects proofs ofThe Friend,551and note;575;C.’s love and esteem for,578;his family in 1812,578;C.’s estimate of,581;on the authorship ofThe Doctor,583n.,584n.;585;C. states his side of the quarrel with Wordsworth in conversation with,592;604,609n.,615,617n.;writes of his friend John Kenyon,639n.;his protection of C.’s family,657;C.’s letter introducing Mr. Ludwig Tieck,670;hisCurse of Kehama,684;694,718,724;hisBook of the Church,724;726;his acquaintance with George Dyer,748n.;letters from C., 72-101, 106-121, 125, 134, 137, 221, 251 n., 303, 307-332, 354-361, 365, 384, 393, 415, 422-430, 434, 437,464,469,487,520,554,597,605,670;letter to Miss Sarah Fricker, 107 n.SeeAnnual Anthology, the, edited by Southey.Southey, Robert, Life and Correspondence of, by Rev. Charles Cuthbert Southey, 108 n., 308 n., 309 n., 327 n., 329 n., 384 n., 395 n., 400 n., 425 n.,488n.,521n.,584n.,736n.,748n.Southey, Robert, Selections from Letters of, 305 n., 438 n.,447n.,543n.,545n.,583n.,584n.,736n.Southey, Robert, of Balliol College, Bath, Poems by Robert Lovell and, 107 n.Southey, Mrs. Robert (Edith Fricker), Southey’s sonnet to, 127 and note;384, 385, 390-392;birth of her first child, Margaret, 394 n., 395 n.;484;birth of her daughter Bertha,546,547and note;592.Southey, Thomas, 108 n., 109 n., 147;a midshipman on the Sylph at the time of her capture, 308 and note.South Molton, 5.Spade of a Friend (an Agriculturist), To the, by Wordsworth, in honor of Thomas Wilkinson,538n.Spaniards, C.’s opinion of,478.Spaniards, Letters on the,629and note.Sparrow, Mr., head-master of Newcome’s Academy, 24, 25 n.Specimens of the Later English Poets, by Southey, 309 n.Spectator, Addison’s, studied by C. in connection withThe Friend,557,558.Speedwell, the brig,467;on board,469-481.Spenser, Edmund, hisView of the State of Ireland,638and note;quotation from,694.Spillekins,462,468.Spinoza, Benedict,632.Spirit of Navigation and Discovery, The, by William Lisle Bowles, 403 and note.Spiritual Philosophy, founded on the Teaching of S. T. Coleridge, by J. H. Green, with memoir of the author’s life, by Sir John Simon,680n.Spurzheim, Johann Kaspar, his life-mask and bust of C.,570n.Stage, illusion of the,663.Stamford News,567n.Stanger, Mrs. Joshua (Mary Calvert), 345 n.Stanzas written in my Pocket Copy of Thomson’s Castle of Indolence, by Wordsworth, 345 n.Steam vessels,730and note,743.Steffens, Heinrich,683.Steinburg, Baron, 279.Steinmetz, Adam, C.’s letter to his friend, John Peirse Kennard, after his death,762;his character and amiable qualities,763,764,775.Steinmetz, John Henry,762n.Stephen, Leslie, on C.’s study of Kant, 351 n.Stephens (Stevens), Launcelot Pepys, 25 and note.Sterling, Life of, by Carlyle,771n.,772n.Sterling, John, his admiration for C.,771n.,772n.;letter from C.,771.Sternbald’s Wanderungen, by Ludwig Tieck,683and note.Stevens (Stephens), Launcelot Pepys, 25 and note.Stoddart, Dr. (afterwards Sir) John,477and note,481,508;detains C.’s books and MSS.,523;524.Stoke House, C. visits the Wedgwoods at,673n.Storm, on a mountain-top, 339, 340;with lightning in December, 365, 366;on Scafell, 400 and note;in Kirkstone Pass, 418-420.Stowey,seeNether Stowey.Stowey Benefit Club, 233.Stowey Castle, 225 n.Street, Mr., editor of theCourier,506,533,567,568,570,616,629,634;his unsatisfactory conduct of theCourier,661,662.Strutt, Mr., 152, 153.Strutt, Edward (Lord Belper), 215 n.Strutt, Joseph, 215 n., 216, 367.Strutt, Mrs. Joseph, 216.Strutt, William, 215 and note.Stuart, Miss, a personal reminiscence of C. by,705n.Stuart, Daniel, proprietor and editor of theMorning PostandCourier, 311, 315;engages C. for theMorning Post, 319, 320;321, 329;engages lodgings in Covent Garden for C., 366 n.;on C.’s dislike of Sir James Mackintosh,454n.,455n.;


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