New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-10


sui ide, etc. The nadI OF ION uixote is OF -hs
first az, his teniioR oeg always to do good and
Object"
u was said of Coleridge by one who knew bin
rtiTately, and was ind, e1 o. of bis most active
friends, thst Gle was good man, but whenever
an! thing presented itself 10 HIM in the shape Of
no'al cuty he ut ery incapable OF performing It
Ito had 10 doubt great faults and Weaknesses, t,dt
tits wac unquestiopsGy sweeping eiagger-tioa,
uttered perhaps in monent OF irritaton' at Salt
Hill snd on some other occasions; 4 " .nessed hs
performance of The du'ies If friendship In a manner
which few men Of his eOnstutlonal Incidence could
b. We rous I'd the mselv's 10 equal,
Will Wa q, CIfto0 Coieridge very unexpectedly
arr, ed ard engaged 20 give a course of lectures
Milton and Shakespeare. heard three Of them, and
here sgsin the regret arises that took notes. In
letter at he time and which has since been
tnrntd ne, find TIE following passage: His Oh
ject he says, is Tot to show what everybody aeknow
edges thar Shakespeare and Milton Of great
genius but to esce the impression that because their
genius great they must n. cessay1ly have great
fsut and 10 prove that their Judgment was equal TO
their genius in other words, that neither Of them
an inspired IDIOT" He has given me, added, "a
much distinct and satisfactory view of the nature
AZ ends Of poetry, and of painting, than l ever lad
before"
On looking back to the time when this note was
writer, ! grieSe TO think that should have al owed
ny Iaiure irdoleroe, The distance and OCCUPATIONS
oen irf rg in comparison with The privilege Of
joylg Coierdges society, to give ground for the
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II is not tie lot Of any one, twice in his life to meet
with 20 extraordinary man. i row read over and
over seain What his nephew has recorded of his
veission, and | can vOuch for the exaetness with
which his preserved in those precious little
yOlunts The remarks there given, on OtheilO "
81 Hamlet, formed pants of his lectures Shakes
pesTe:
The clue to the inconsistencies Of Hamlst might be
found lie said, lin tie undae pIedonnance of the
inner Over the enter man"
Coleridee did consider that the passion of eal
ousy The subject OF the tragedy of Othelo, but
Il SLak sp,are had displayed fuy ard truly in the
" Winters Tale" OthtHO is anything but jealous
IL bis Azure and made only by tie Vaccinations of
lego, while Leonics requires prompter but his
euspicious mird'' He observed shat the difficulty
great IL imagining expression adj qrate 10 the
I, elings OF OtheHO when he first IIgO after hav
ing discovered bis viany and he thought It master
.troke of Shakespeare to surmOun It az he has done:
a. look down towards his feet; but that's fable.
II that thou hest devil canHo; kill thee"
He pointed the great dramatic beauty Of the open
ing Scenes Of Hamlet" and the admirable skill with
v Bi,h he ghost is introduced Although M1rcsllus
and b. ya0Td0 expecting appearance, and Hora-
TO has joneo their watch with the expectation,
they talking about it, its entrance is start
ling, and every su'ceeding appearance alike thrilling.
In reading passages from he fret Of this play,
Cotridge DOreed Shake-pearee respect even for the
expectations connected with the mysteries OF Chris
tanity, beautiful instance of which occurs in the
lines,
1T faded on the Growing Of the cock
Some say that ever ga R iha sfeson comes
This bird Of da~niHg siogeih ~ night long;
1he MIR Its wholesome; then 10 planets strike,
No fairy takes, which hsfi power 70 charm
So Lslow'd and 50 gracious u the time"
He said the reply of H0yotio was be believed exact
" that ch Shah espeare himself would have made:
So have heard, and do in part believe it.'
He could read, be said, any OF those scenes IN
which children introduced, without laying the
book down and losing Shakespeare Orer again. lie
said the anaobIopns noticed by Shakespeare critics
would not perhaps, have gwen the poet himself any
great aiBess lad they been pointed ont TO him, as
possibly thew were; and this may have gwen rise 10
Il at curious intentional anaebronsm in the third act OF
Lar where the fool, after fourteen bnes Of bur
/, sQUe prediction, says
Tls pophecy Merlin shall make for before Ais time"
wish | could recoleot what Coleridge sal of the
character Of FGlstGB. only remember, with c. rtain-
~ his opinion that Shakespeare, in the M.rry
Wives Of Windsor" bad departed from the original
conception Of the character, and that the F0stgt IN
thM play. though very amusing, was much below the
FQLsfof Of the two parts of Henry the Fourth !
an not sure whether it was Colerldge who remarked
that in the scene OF the hIst part OF " Henry the
Fourth in which Falstof brags Of his teas al Gids-
hill be begins with the intention of imposing on the
Primer and PosRs but quickly perceiSiDg that they do
not believe him, he goes buiiOOniDg and adds TO the
men IN buckTaD until they amount TO eleven, merely
10 II axe the Prince laugh.
A most interesting portion of Coleridses le,tures
consisted in his pointing out the truth and refinement
of Shak aspeaTes women, beyond those OF all other
dramatists; and how purified hs imagination was
Colercgr's lectures were, unfortunately, extempo-
raneOue. he now ar then took up scraps OF paper
on U bch he had noted the leading points OF his SUB
iect and he had books about him for quotation. On
timing 10 one OF these Ia work OF hls o~n he sad
AS Ibis il a secret which confded TO the public
year or two ago and which to do the public justice
hos been very faithfully kept, may he permitted 10
Iesd YOU passage from 1t -
HIS voice WEI deep and musical and his words fol-
lowed each other IN uDbroSen flow yet free rom
mouotoDy. There was indeed peculiar charm IN hs
uiteranCe. His pronunciation was remarkably cor
rect IL some respects pedaDtically 30 lie gave the
full sound Of the in talk, and should, and corta.
Sir james Mach ntOsh at ended the whole course OF
there lectures and listened with the greatest interest
This was beapng Goals of fire on the head OF Cole
ridge who had ampooned him with great severity Tor
biz political apos;acy, 1t was considered Temem-
Der many years af1ervaJd when l had frequent OPP
UoruDiti, Of seeing Sir James hearing him say that
lie be 81 fling said Of ghosts was oy CoieTloe,
who when asked by a lady if be believed In then,
rerh.d, No, Madam, have seen TOO many TO be-
heye III thFm.
II was In company with Colerdge that | first heard
the niet tnpale that H. 10 know that heard 1t. II
was 10 a lane near Hghgate where there were mum,
ber 81 cit g. and he easily Distinguished and pointed
out to ne their fun rich notes among those OF other
bids for II was in tie day time. He even told how
Ir;,Iv were there. He took 10 eninence ~ the
reiehborhOOd, commanding view Of Caen WOOD, ana
rad the bage Of objects, as seen from tha Pcih
reminded nm OF the passage IN Milton, beginning
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures,
Whit the landskip round measures"
and running through the following eighteen or
twenty lines.
member are the following:
= How Natural is the exaggerstion in the account
the woman Of San.aia csri-s 10 her friends OF our
Savior. Come, see nan which toll me all th'Rgs
Lot ,rfr JdiG.' when in reality, our Lord had Only
tod her Il al she had Lad FIVE husbands and that he,
WI ON she Dow bad, was not her husband.
lie said lie did oOut out that ID the I'm chapter