press after the Restoration. His writings are coarse and violent in style. 73:6. Jeremy Collier, a non-juring bishop (1650-1726) best known for his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage. He also wrote a church history and several volumes of moral essays. 73:13. Roger North's life of his brother Francis, Lord Guilford, Keeper of the Great Seal, was published, together with the lives of his other brothers, Dudley and John, in 1740-42. Macaulay calls him “a most intolerant Tory, a most affected and pedantic writer." 73:29. Coleridge has reference here, of course, only to Cowley's pleasant prose essays, not to his frigid and artificial verse. 74:4. Author of Discourses concerning Government, a republican statesman of the time of the Civil War, executed in 1682 for alleged complicity in the Rye House plot. 849. Samuel Whitbread (1758-1815) was a prominent Whig statesman and a leader of his party in the House of Commons. 84: 17. William Whitehead was appointed Poet Laureate on the death of Colley Cibber in 1758. A Charge to the Poets was printed in 1741, so that he could hardly have been exerting the prerogative of his laureateship" in writing it. 87:3. Dr. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), author of The Botanic Garden, was a practicing physician at Lichfield. 87: 3. William Roscoe, the historian, author of the Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, etc., was an active member of the Liverpool bar and of the House of Commons. He died in 1831. 89: 16. A ridiculous parson in Fielding's Joseph Andrews. 93 10. Johann Gottfried von Herder, one of the most versatile and influential of German writers, was court preacher and member of the consistory at Weimar (1776–1803). De Quincey calls him the German Coleridge. 96: 25. The rough burr-thistle, spreading wide I turned the weeder-clips aside, And spared the symbol dear. -Burns' Answer to Verses Addressed to the Poet by the Goodwife of Wauchope House. 98:11. Johann Philipp Palm, a German publisher, of Nuremberg, for sending through the mails a pamphlet against Bonaparte entitled Deutschland in seiner tiefen Erniedrigung, was tried by a French military commission and shot at Braunau (1806), where a life-sized bronze statue was erected to his memory in 1866. 100 IO. The butterfly, emblem of the immortal soul (vxh) See the beautiful myth of Cupid and Psyche in the Golden Ass of Apuleius. 101:23. Samuel Daniel, Epistle to the Countess of Cumberland. 103:15. Johann Christian von Wolf (1679-1754), the German philosopher and mathematician. 104:12. At the castle of the Wartburg, near Eisenach, in Thuringia, Luther was in hiding in 1521-22, for some ten months, following his appearance at the Diet of Worms. He busied himself in this retreat with his translation of the New Testament. 104:26. The Latin version of the Scriptures made by Jerome in the fourth century and accepted by the Roman Catholic Church as the only authentic text. 105:18. The Septuagint is a Greek version of the Bible supposed to have been made by seventy translators at Alexandria in the time of the Ptolemies. 1084. Jean Jacques Rousseau. III: 7. "All things are artificial, for Nature is the art of God." Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici. 113:20. Domenico Cimarosa (1754-1801), an Italian musical Coleridge alludes to his opera Gli Orazi (The composer. Horatii). 116: 16. See p. 7.3 note. 116:20. George Berkeley, Dean of Derry and Bishop of Cloyne, maintained in his Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) and Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713) that matter has no existence independent of mind. 121:8. The famous burlesque romance, satirizing the Puritans, published in 1663-64 by Samuel Butler. 124:25. A Neo-Platonic philosopher of the third century. His works exist in fifty-four books, called Enneads. The passage cited is from Ennead III. viii. 3, p. 634, Creuzer's ed., Oxford, 1835. According to Charles Lamb, Plotinus seems to have been among Coleridge's schoolboy studies at Christ's Hospital. See Introduction, p. vii. 134:7. John Thelwall, an English author of liberal opinions, who was once prosecuted for high treason, in company with Horne Tooke, the author of the Diversions of Purley. Coleridge, in his radical days, had known Thelwall in the South of England "among the Quantocks." They died in the same year, 1834. English Readings for Students. This collection is planned to supply English masterpieces in editions at once competently edited and inexpensive. The aim will be to fill vacancies now existing because of subject, treatment, or price. The volumes will be of convenient size and serviceably bound. Coleridge: Prose Extracts. Selections chosen and edited with introduction and notes by HENRY A. BEERS, Professor in Yale College. xxix+148 pp. 16mo. Boards. Teachers' price, 30 cents; postage 4 cents additional. 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