Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-04-16

good, bad contraced itself into paintive shuttle and
singsong ne spoke as preaching you would have said
preacnng earnestly and also hopelessy the weighest
things still recollect his OBJ ect and subject
Of continual recurrence in the Kanean province and how
be sung and snufied them into om-n.mject and sum
m-ngect with kind Of solemn shake quayer, he
rolled along No talk in his century any other could
be more surprising.
And nothing could be more copious than his talk:
and nrthermore il was always virtually literally OF
the natnre OF monologue suffering no interruption,
reyerent hastily putting aside all foreign addi-
lions annctatons, ingenious desires for eucda-
tion ~ heime superhuites, which would do
Besldss II was talk not flowing anywhiher like river,
but Spreading eyerywhher in inextrcabe currents and
rtgurEtations like terribly deficient in definite
goal ain, nay often in logical nellgbility etat you
were 70 oeeye do, any earthly heavenly thing,
obstntey refusing to appear from it, So that, most
fe logically lost swamped to drowning in
this tue Of ingenious vocables, spreading out boundes
~ if n sRbper the world.
A sa as passive bucket and pe pumped into, wha-
th6y4 c6sent can tn the lbpg ruH ne exaprvt
tng(x d6GiestaTs newkloQ ysst sthS ~
used unintsgbe food Of utterance threatening to sub
merge all known landmarks Of thought and drown the
world and you have heard Coeridge talk with eager
musical energy, two stricken hours his face radiant and
moist and communicateno meaning whatsoever 10 any
individual Of his Of whom for one, still
kept EAGERLY listening in hope the most had long before
giyenhp, and formed (if the large enough)
secondary humming groups of their own He began any
gsstiy observation; instead of answering this dec
dedly letting out towards answer Of it, he would accumu
late dmidabie apparatus, logical swmbadders tran
scendatal epreservers and other precautionary and
gear for setting out perhaps did at last get
under Nays but swiftly solicited turned aside by the
glancepf some radiant game on this hand or that,
into courses and into and before long into
all the Universe where it uncertain what game you
would latch, whether anv.
g Hi talk, alas, distinguished, like himself by
irresolttion it dsked to be troubled with conditions
absn,nces, definite fulments loved TO wander at its
steet will and make its auditor and his Claims and
humbb wishes passive bucket for itself He had
knowledge about many things and TOPICS much curious
readiqg but generally all topics led him, after pass
two, to the high of theosophc philosophy the hazy
infnude of Kantean transcendentalism with its
mecb' and som-m m jects Sad enough; for with such
ndobn mpatence of the claims and gnorances of Others
he lad not the least talent for explaining this any
thing unknown to them; and you swan and dutter-
ed the mistiest wide unnegble deuge Of things for
the most part in rather proftess, uncomfortable
manner
IGlorous isets TOO, have rise of the haze
bu they few, and swallowed in the general
element again Balmy, sunny slets slets of the bles
and the Ineligible; which occasions those secondary
hunming groups would all cease hummng, and hang
brsathess upon the eloquent words till your islet
got wrapt in the mist again and they could recommence
hunnming. Eloquent artisticany expressive words you
always had piercing radances of most subtle insight
at intervals tones OF noble pious sympathy recog
nzabe pious though strangely colored, never
wanting long but in general you could not call this aim
less cloud-capt cloud-based awlessy human
discourse Of by the of excellent talk but
only of surprising, and reminded bitterly of Haz
ltts account Of il: Excellent taker, very If you will
let him start from premises and TO conclu
sion. Colerdge without what takers cali wit,
and there touches af prcky him, con-
senpsnous enoneu the wSrd ard its idols and popular
dgnitaries; he had traits Of poetic hnmor but in
general he seemed deficient in laughter indeed
pathy for concrete human things either the sunny
the stormy side One right peal of concrete laughter
at convicted hesh-and-bood absurdty, burst
noble indignation injustice depravity rubbing
elbows with this solid earth, how strange would
have been in that kantean haze world and how nfnte,
cheering amid its air-castles and dim -mens
passed amid the ghosts Of defunct bodies and Of unborn
The moaning sing song Of that theosophco meta
physical monotony left in you, at last, very dreary
feeling"