Footnote 1:
I give the letter as I received it, — of course it was never intended for the public eye.
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Footnote 2:
This is too strong an expression. It was not idleness, it was not sensual indulgence, that led Coleridge to contract this habit. No, it was latent disease, of which sufficient proof is given in this memoir.
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Footnote 3:
Those who have witnessed the witches scampering off the stage, cannot forget the ludicrous appearance they make.
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Footnote 4:
Of the historical plays, he observes:
It would be a fine national custom to act such a series of dramatic histories in orderly succession, in the yearly Christmas holidays, and could not but tend to counteract that mock cosmopolitism, which, under a positive term, really implies nothing but a negation of, or indifference to, the particular love of our country."
Literary Remains
, Vol. ii. p. 161.
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Footnote 5:
Vide
Vol. ii. p. 1. — Also p. 103 of this work.
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Footnote 6:
He had long been greatly afflicted with nightmare; and, when residing with us, was frequently roused from this painful sleep by any one of the family who might hear him.
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Footnote 7:
From an anonymous criticism published soon after the
Christabel
.
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Footnote 8:
In the "Improved Version of the New Testament," the spirit of this Evangelist is perverted.
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Footnote 9:
He used to say, in St. John is the philosophy of Christianity; in St. Paul, the moral reflex.
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Footnote 10:
The last lines are in the
Aids to Reflection
. The former six lines are from a note written from his conversation.
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Footnote 11:
The
Christabel
was published by Murray, but the
Sibylline Leaves
and the
Biog. Liter.
by Rest Fenner.
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Footnote 12:
The first was published in 1816, and the second in 1817.
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Footnote 13:
Vide
St. John, ch. xx. ver. 17.
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