Preface

the Fall of Robespierre

Poems

Count Rumford's Essays

Epigrams

to a Primrose

on the Christening of a Friend's Child

"Hoarse Maevius reads..."

Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles...

Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie

Epilogue to the Rash Conjuror

Psyche

Complaint

Reproof

an Ode to the Rain

Translation of a Passage....

Israel's Lament...

Sentimental

the Alternative

the Exchange

What is Life?

Inscription for a Time-Piece

Note in Casaubon's Persius

Notes on Chapman's Homer.

Note in Baxter's Life of Himself

Fragment of an Essay on Taste

Fragment of an Essay on Beauty

Poems and Poetical Fragments

Omniana

Jeremy Taylor

The Soul and its Organs of Sense

Sir George Etherege, etc.

Evidence

Force of Habit

Phoenix

Memory and Recollection

Aliquid ex Nihilo.

Brevity of the Greek and English Compared

The Will and the Deed

The Will for the Deed

Sincerity

Truth and Falsehood

Religious Ceremonies

Association

Curiosity

New Truths

Vicious Pleasures

Meriting Heaven

Dust to Dust

Human Countenance

Lie Useful to Truth

Science in Roman Catholic States

Voluntary Belief

Amanda

Hymen's Torch

Youth and Age

December Morning

Archbishop Leighton

Christian Honesty

Inscription on a Clock in Cheapside

Rationalism is not Reason

Inconsistency

Hope in Humanity

Self-Love in Religion

Limitation of Love of Poetry

Humility of the Amiable

Temper in Argument

Patriarchal Government

Callous Self-Conceit

a Librarian

Trimming

Death

Love an Act of the Will

Wedded Union

Difference Between Hobbs and Spinosa

The End May Justify the Means

Negative Thought

Man's Return to Heaven

Young Prodigies

Welch Names

German Language

the Universe

Harberous

an Admonition

To Thee Cherubim and Seraphim Continually Do Cry

Definition of Miracle

Death, and Grounds for Belief in a Future State

Hatred of Injustice

Religion

The Apostles' Creed

a Good Heart

Evidences of Christianity 1

Confessio Fidei

...collected and edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge, Esq. M. A.


to Joseph Henry Green, Esq., Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, the approved friend of Coleridge, these volumes are gratefully inscribed

Table of Contents

• Preface
• The Fall of Robespierre
• Poems
• • "Julia was blest with beauty, wit and grace"
  • "­ ­ I yet remain"
  • to the Rev. W. J Hort
  • to Charles Lamb
  • to the Nightingale
  • to Sara
  • to Joseph Cottle
  • Casimir
  • Darwiniana
  • "The early year's fast-flying vapours stray"
• Count Rumford's Essays
• Epigrams
• • on a late marriage between an Old Maid and a French Petit MaÎtre
  • on an Amorous Doctor
  • "There comes from old Avaro's grave"
  • "Last Monday all the papers said"
• To a Primrose (the first seen in the season)
• on the Christening of a Friend's Child
• Epigram, "Hoarse Maeviuis reads his hobbling verse"
• Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles, in Nether Stowey Church
• • translation
• Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie
• Epilogue to the Rash Conjuror
• Psyche
• Complaint
• Reproof
• an Ode to the Rain
• Translation of a Passage in Ottfried's Metrical Paraphrase of the Gospels
• Israel's Lament on the Death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales
• Sentimental
• the Alternative
• the Exchange
• What is Life?
• Inscription for a Time-Piece

• a Course of Lectures

• Prospectus
• Lecture I ­ General character of the Gothic Mind in the Middle Ages
• Lecture II ­ General character of the Gothic Literature and Art
• Lecture III ­ The Troubadours ­ Boccaccio ­ Petrarch ­ Pulci ­ Chaucer ­ Spenser
• Lectures IV-VI. Shakspeare (not included in the original text)
• Lecture VII ­ Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Massinger
• Lecture VIII ­ Don Quixote. Cervantes
• Lecture IX ­ On the Distinctions of the Witty, the Droll, the Odd, and the Humourous; the Nature and Constituents of Humour; Rabelais, Swift, Sterne
• Lecture X ­ Donne, Dante, Milton, Paradise Lost
• Lecture XI ­ Asiatic and Greek Mythologies, Robinson Crusoe, Use of Works of Imagination in Education
• Lecture XII ­ Dreams, Apparitions, Alchemists, Personality of the Evil Being, Bodily Identity
• Lecture XIII ­ on Poesy or Art
• Lecture XIV ­ on Style

• Notes on Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici
• Notes on Junius
• Notes on Barclay's Argenis
• Note in Casaubon's Persius
• Notes on Chapman's Homer
• Note in Baxter's Life of Himself
• Fragment of an Essay on Taste

• Fragment of an Essay on Beauty
• Poems and Poetical Fragments
• Omniana

• The French Decade
• Ride and Tie
• Jeremy Taylor
• Criticism
• Public Instruction
• Picturesque Words
• Toleration
• War
• Parodies
• M. Dupuis
• Origin of the Worship of Hymen
• Egotism
• Cap of Liberty
• Bulls
• Wise Ignorance
• Rouge
• Hasty Words
• Motives and Impulses
• Inward Blindness
• The Vices of Slaves No Excuse for Slavery
• Circulation of the Blood
• Peritura Parcere ChartÆ
• To Have and to Be
• Party Passion
• Goodness of Heart Indispensable to a Man of Genius
• Milton and Ben Jonson
• Statistics
• Magnanimity
• Negroes and Narcissuses
• an Anecdote
• The Pharos at Alexandria
• Sense and Common Sense
• Toleration
• Hint for a New Species of History
• Text Sparring
• Pelagianism

• The Soul and Its Organs of Sense
• Sir George Etherege, &c.

• Evidence
• Force of Habit
• Phoenix
• Memory and Recollection
• Aliquid ex Nihilo
• Brevity of the Greek and English compared
• The Will and the Deed

• The Will for the Deed
• Sincerity
• Truth and Falsehood
• Religious Ceremonies
• Association
• Curiosity
• New Truths
• Vicious Pleasures
• Meriting Heaven
• Dust to Dust
• Human Countenance
• Lie useful to Truth
• Science in Roman Catholic States
• Voluntary Belief
• Amanda
• Hymen's Torch

• Youth and Age
• December Morning
• Archbishop Leighton
• Christian Honesty
• Inscription on a Clock in Cheapside
• Rationalism is not Reason
• Inconsistency
• Hope in Humanity
• Self-Love in Religion
• Limitation of Love of Poetry
• Humility of the Amiable
• Temper in Argument
• Patriarchal Government
• Callous Self-Conceit
• a Librarian
• Trimming
• Death
• Love an Act of the Will
• Wedded Union
• Difference between Hobbs and Spinosa
• The End May Justify the Means
• Negative Thought
• Man's Return to Heaven
• Young Prodigies
• Welch Names
• German Language
• the Universe
• Harberous
• an Admonition
• To Thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry
• Definition of Miracle
• Death, and grounds of belief in a Future State
• Hatred of Injustice
• Religion
• The Apostles' Creed
• a Good Heart
• Evidences of Christianity
• Confessio Fidei